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John A. Hawkins is Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics (RCEAL) at the University of Cambridge.^[1] As of 2007 he is also a professor in the Department of Linguistics at UC Davis.^[2]

His main research interests are in English grammar, psycholinguistics, language universals, linguistic typology and historical linguistics.

Selected publications edit

Definiteness and Indefiniteness (1978, Humanities Press & Croom Helm; 2015, Routledge)
Word Order Universals (1983, Academic Press)
A Comparative Typology of English and German (1986, University of Texas Press; 2015, Routledge)
[Editor] Explaining Language Universals (1988, Basil Blackwell)
A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency (1994, Cambridge University Press)
Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars (2004, Oxford University Press)
Cross-linguistic Variation and Efficiency (2014, Oxford University Press)

References edit

^ "RCEAL: Professor John Hawkins". Archived from the original on 10 February 2008. Retrieved 15 February 2008.
^ John A. Hawkins, Professor, Linguistics

External links edit

Hawkins at the University of Cambridge
Hawkins at UC Davis

[1] "RCEAL: Professor John Hawkins". Archived from the original on 10 February 2008. Retrieved 15 February 2008.

[2] John A. Hawkins, Professor, Linguistics

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