Adele Goldberg (linguist)

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Adele Eva Goldberg
Born1963 (age 59–60)
Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Alma mater
Known for Construction grammar
Spouse Ali Yazdani
Children2
Relatives Ken Y. Goldberg (brother)
Scientific career
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Institutions
Thesis Argument structure constructions
Doctoral advisor George Lakoff
Website adele.princeton.edu

Adele Eva Goldberg (born 1963) is an American linguist known for her development of construction grammar and the constructionist approach in the tradition of cognitive linguistics.

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Early life

Goldberg grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where her mother was a reading teacher and her father was an engineer. Her brother, [1] Ken Y. Goldberg is chair of the industrial engineering and operations research department at the University of California, Berkeley, [2] and her sister, Elena is a pediatrician and child psychologist in Brooklyn.

Academic career

Goldberg received a B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy from University of Pennsylvania in 1985 before spending two years in the Logic and Methodology of Science program at University of California at Berkeley. She then transferred to linguistics to work with George Lakoff and earned her PhD in linguistics in 1992, studying with Lakoff, Eve Sweetser, Charles Fillmore, and Dan Slobin. Her thesis argues that basic grammatical patterns in English are directly associated with meaning, offering one of the earliest arguments that constructions as well as words contribute to propositional content. [3]

After receiving her PhD, Goldberg joined the University of California, San Diego as an assistant professor of linguistics (1992-1997), and Associate Professor (1997-1998). From 1997 to 2004, she was associate professor of linguistics at the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign before moving to Princeton University in 2004 as Professor of Psychology and Linguistics. [4]

She has continued to work on the relationship between form and function in language in language processing, and language learning by children and adults. [5]

Awards and honors

Personal life

Goldberg married Ali Yazdani, currently a professor of physics at Princeton, in 1994 and they have two children. [12]

Selected publications

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  4. ↑ "Faculty | Department of Psychology". psych.princeton.edu. Archived from the original on 2022-02-02. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
  5. ↑ "Adele Goldberg". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
  6. ↑ "About". Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
  7. ↑ "Adele Goldberg Awarded Fillmore Professorship at the Linguistic Institute — Linguistics". linguistics.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
  8. ↑ "Past Linguistic Institutes: Named Professorships | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
  9. ↑ "Laurels to Linguists: Adele Goldberg Receives Humboldt Research Award | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
  10. ↑ "LSA Fellows By Name | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
  11. ↑ "Adele Goldberg | Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences". casbs.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
  12. ↑ "Professor Couples at Princeton University". The Princetonian. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
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