Summary
William Bernard McGregor (born 1952) is an Australian linguist and professor in linguistics at Aarhus University.[1] He specializes in the description of mainly non-Pama-Nyungan Australian languages and does descriptive linguistic work on Gooniyandi, Nyulnyul and Warrwa, but also studies the Shua language in Africa. He works on theoretical and typological issues from within a variation of systemic functional linguistics dubbed Semiotic Grammar developed by himself.[2][3]
McGregor is a member of Academia Europaea[4] and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.[5] He is also a Knight of Dannebrog since 2010.[6] Editorial boards that McGregor serves on include the Australian Journal of Linguistics[7] and Language and History.[8]
Biography edit
McGregor received his PhD degree from the University of Sydney in 1984.[9] In the following decade, he had a number of positions through different institutions in Australia, until he came to Europe. He was first a senior research fellow at KU Leuven in 1998 and then visiting research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen for one and a half year. Since 2000, he has been full professor at Aarhus University.[4]
Selected publications edit
- McGregor, William B. (1990). A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN 9789027230256.
- McGregor, William B. (1997). Semiotic grammar. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0198236883.
- McGregor, William B. (2011). The Nyulnyul language of Dampier Land, Western Australia (PDF). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Australian National University. ISBN 9780858836471. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- McGregor, William B. (2015). Linguistics: An Introduction (2. ed.). London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9780567483393.
- McGregor, William B. (2021). Neo-Firthian Approaches to Linguistic Typology. Sheffield, UK: Equinox Publishing. ISBN 9781781796665.
Referencer edit
- ^ "William Bernard McGregor - Research". pure.au.dk. Aarhus University. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
- ^ Willemsen, Jeroen (7 May 2018). "Description, theory and linguistics as a science – an interview with William B. McGregor". Lingoblog.dk. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ^ "Academy of Europe: CV". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ^ a b "Academy of Europe: McGregor William Bernard". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ^ "Fellow". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
- ^ "Modtagere af danske dekorationer". www.kongehuset.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ^ "Australian Journal of Linguistics Editorial Board". www.tandfonline.com. Taylor and Francis. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
- ^ "Language & History Editorial Board". www.tandfonline.com. Taylor and Francis. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
- ^ McGregor, William B. (1984). A grammar of Kuniyanti: an Australian Aboriginal language of the southern Kimberley, Western Australia (Ph.D. thesis). hdl:2123/15383.