Adele Eva Goldberg

Adele Eva Goldberg (born November 9, 1963 ) is an American linguist .

Career

Goldberg received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992 with George Lakoff . From 1992 to 1998 she was Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego , and from 1997 to 2004 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . She has been Professor of Linguistics at Princeton University since 2004 .

Goldberg is a leading researcher in construction grammar . In her monograph Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure (1995), which quickly became a standard work, she deals with the general principles of this theory, which assumes that grammatical structures - like words - are linguistic units that carry meaning. Since then she has dealt increasingly with the psycholinguistic reality of these units. She summarizes her research on this question in her monograph Constructions at Work: The Nature of Generalization in Language (2006).

Goldberg is married to the physics professor Ali Yazdani . Her brother is the artist and professor of engineering Ken Goldberg .

Works (selection)

• Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1995, ISBN 0-226-30086-2 .
• as editor: Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language . Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, Stanford, CA 1996, ISBN 1-57586-041-4 .
• Constructions at Work: the nature of generalization in language . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2006, ISBN 0-19-926852-5 .

Web links

• Homepage of Adele E. Goldberg (engl.)