Adele Goldberg (linguist)

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

Career

Goldberg received his doctorate in 1992 at the University of California, Berkeley with George Lakoff. From 1992 to 1998 she was a professor of linguistics at the University of California, San Diego, and from 1997 to 2004 at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. Since 2004 she is Professor of Linguistics at Princeton University.

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

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

Works (selection)

• Goldberg, Adele E.: Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure. University of Chicago Press, Chigago 1995. ISBN 0226300862
• Goldberg, Adele E. (eds.): Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language. Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, Stanford, CA