Adele Goldberg

LSA 106: Constructions and cognitive linguistics

Adele Goldberg is Professor of Linguistics at Princeton University. Her research interest is the psychology of language, particularly the way form and meaning are related, and the way these pairings are learned and represented. After getting her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1992, she taught at UCSD and at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign before moving to Princeton in 2004. She has taught at several previous LSA Linguistic Institutes (1999, 2001, 2005, 2007) and at the LOT winter school in Amsterdam (1995, 2006). She is author of Constructions: a Construction Grammar approach to argument structure (1995) and Constructions at Work: the nature of generalization in language (2006).

External website: http://www.princeton.edu/~adele/AEG.html