William Croft (linguist)
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William Croft (born November 13, 1956) is a professor of linguistics at the University of New Mexico, USA.
He is an advocate and inventor of radical construction grammar, which among other things uses box-diagrams to compare and contrast the grammatical features of different natural languages.
William Croft is a member of Save-the-Redwoods League's Board of Councillors and an ancient tree affecionado.
[edit] Partial bibliography
- Cognitive Linguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) (2004) with D. A. Cruse ISBN 0-521-66770-4
- Typology and Universals, 2nd ed. (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) (2003) ISBN 0-521-00499-3
- 1st ed. (1990) ISBN 0-521-36583-X
- Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic theory in typological perspective (2001) ISBN 0-19-829954-0