William Croft (linguist)

William Croft (born November 13, 1956) is an American professor of linguistics at the University of New Mexico, United States. From 1994 to 2005 he was successively research fellow, lecturer, reader and professor in Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UK.

For the composer, see William Croft.

He is the inventor of and advocate for radical construction grammar, which among other things uses box-diagrams to compare and contrast the grammatical features of different natural languages.[1]

William Croft is a member of Save the Redwoods League's Board of Councillors.[2]

Partial bibliography
  • Syntactic Categories and Grammatical Relations: The Cognitive Organization of Information (1991) ISBN 978-0226120904
  • Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach (2001) ISBN 978-0582356771
  • Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic theory in typological perspective (2001) ISBN 0-19-829954-0
  • Typology and Universals, 2nd ed. (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) (2003) ISBN 0-521-00499-3
    • 1st ed. (1990) ISBN 0-521-36583-X
  • Cognitive Linguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) (2004) with D. A. Cruse ISBN 0-521-66770-4
  • Verbs: aspect and causal structure (2012) ISBN 978-0199248582

References
  1. "Genetic linguistics". Times Higher Education. October 6, 2006. Retrieved January 21, 2010.
  2. http://www.unm.edu/~wcroft/WACCV.html http://www.savetheredwoods.org/league/staff.shtml


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