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Linguist
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)
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