Laura Michaelis

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Laura Michaelis
Born Fort Eustis, Virginia
Residence Boulder, Colorado
Fields Linguistics
Institutions University of Colorado, Boulder
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor Charles J. Fillmore

Laura A. Michaelis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and a faculty fellow in the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Background and Research

Professor Michaelis' research centers on the discourse-syntax interface in conversational English and the semantic interaction between words and grammatical constructions, with particular emphasis on the linguistic encoding of tense and aspect. She has published work in the journals Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, The Journal of Semantics and The Journal of Pragmatics. Currently, her research focuses on the grammar of English noun phrases, verbal argument structure,[1][2] and nonstandard syntactic amalgams in conversational speech. In addition, along with Charles J. Fillmore, Paul Kay and Ivan Sag, she is presently writing a book about the formal foundations of Construction Grammar.

She received her BA, MA and PhD in linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, writing her thesis under the direction of Charles J. Fillmore.

Select Works

Books

  • Mismatch: Form-Function Incongruity and the Architecture of Grammar (w/ Elaine J. Francis) CSLI Publications (2003) ISBN 1-57586-383-9
  • Aspectual Grammar and Past-Time Reference. Routledge (1998) ISBN 0-415-15678-5

Publications

  • Michaelis, Laura A. 2006. Time and Tense. In B. Aarts and A. MacMahon, (eds.), The Handbook of English Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. 220-234.
  • Brenier, Jason M. and Laura A. Michaelis. 2005. Optimization via Syntactic Amalgam: Syntax-Prosody Mismatch and Copula Doubling. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 1: 45-88.
  • Michaelis, Laura A. 2005. Entity and Event Coercion in a Symbolic Theory of Syntax. In J.-O. Oestman and M. Fried, (eds.), Construction Grammar(s): Cognitive Grounding and Theoretical Extensions. Constructional Approaches to Language, Volume 3. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 45-88.
  • Michaelis, Laura A. 2004. Type Shifting in Construction Grammar: An Integrated Approach to Aspectual Coercion. Cognitive Linguistics 15: 1-67.

References

  1. ↑ Goldberg, Adele. 1995. Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  2. ↑ Goldberg, Adele. 2006. Constructions at Work. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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