John A. Hawkins (linguist) explained

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

• 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)

External links

• Hawkins at the University of Cambridge
• Hawkins at UC Davis

Notes and References

1. Web site: RCEAL: Professor John Hawkins . 2008-02-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080210153917/http://www.rceal.cam.ac.uk/people/staffpages/jah91.html . 2008-02-10 . dead .
2. http://linguistics.ucdavis.edu/People/jhawkins/ John A. Hawkins, Professor, Linguistics