Andrew Radford (linguist)

Andrew Radford
Born (1945-07-03)July 3, 1945
Woking
Fields Generative Grammar, Syntax, Child Language Acquisition.
Institutions Cambridge University, Oxford University, East Anglia University, Bangor University, Essex University.
Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge
Doctoral advisor Pieter Seuren: a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen.
Doctoral students Lahcen Alami, Michelle Aldridge, Adil AlSubhi, Adrian Battye, Joseph Galasso, Son-Ho Hong, Giorgos Ioannou, Bettina Knipschild, Insook Lee, Norio Nasu, Laura Rupp, Michèle Vincent, Hideki Yokota, Keisuke Yoshimoto.
Known for Generative Grammar, Principles and Parameters of Language Development, Structure building model of child language Acquisition.
Influences Noam Chomsky

Andrew Radford is a British linguist known for his work in Syntax and Child Language Acquisition. His first important contribution to the field was his 1977 book on Italian syntax.[1] He achieved international recognition in 1981 for his best-selling book Transformational Syntax which sold over 100,000 copies and was the standard introduction to Chomsky's Government and Binding Theory for many years, and this was followed up by a best-selling introduction to Transformational Grammar in 1988. He has since published several books on Syntax within the framework of Generative grammar and the Minimalist Program of Noam Chomsky (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics series).[2][3] In the 1990s he was a pioneer of the maturation-based Structure building model of child language, and the acquisition of Functional categories in early child English within the Principles and Parameters framework,[4][5] in which children are seen as gradually building up more and more complex structures, with Lexical categories (like noun and verb) being acquired before Functional-Syntactic categories (like determiner and complementiser): this research resulted in the publication of a monograph on Syntactic Theory and the Acquisition of English Syntax in 1990 (Blackwell, Oxford), and numerous articles on the acquisition of syntax by monolingual, bilingual and language-disordered children. For the past few years, he has been researching the syntax of colloquial English, using data recorded from unscripted radio and TV broadcasts; he has produced a number of articles on this (2012a, 2013, 2015b), and is preparing a research monograph on Colloquial English. Andrew Radford is now emeritus (distinguished) professor of linguistics at the University of Essex.

Education

He was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1964 to 1968, reading Modern Languages (French, Italian and Romanian), Linguistics and Romance Philology. He graduated with a first-class degree and was awarded a Research Scholarship by Trinity College Cambridge and went on to complete a PhD on Italian Syntax there, supervised by Pieter Seuren.

Career

He was a Research Fellow in Linguistics at Trinity College Cambridge from 1971-5, before taking up posts as Lecturer in Linguistics in the School of English & American Studies at East Anglia University (1975-6), Lecturer in Linguistics in the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages at Oxford University (1976-8), and Reader in Linguistics in the Department of Language and Linguistics at Essex University (1978–80). In 1980, he became Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University, serving first as Head of the Department of Linguistics (1980-7), and later as Head of the School of Modern Languages and Linguistics (1987–89). In 1989 he returned to Essex University as Professor of Linguistics, where he served three terms as Head of the Department of Language and Linguistics, and one as Dean of the School of Humanities and Comparative Studies. He retired at the end of 2013, and has been Emeritus Professor at Essex since then. He has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Child Language, Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, Studies in Language Sciences, Chomskyan Studies, Rivista di Grammatica Generativa, and Iberia. He also served two spells as a member of the Linguistics Review Panel for the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

Selected publications (2012-2016)

References

  1. ↑ Rebecca Posner (1978). Review: Italian Syntax: Transformational and Relational Grammar.
  2. ↑ Baltin, Mark (1990-09-25). Review: Transformational Grammar. Linguistic Society of America. pp. 569–573.
  3. ↑ Radford, Andrew (2016-10-31). Analyzing English Sentences (2nd ed). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-66008-2. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  4. ↑ James Russell (2004). What is Language Development. ISBN 0-19-2632485.
  5. ↑ Anne Vainikka and Martha Young-Scholten (2011). The Acquisition of German. ISBN 978-3-11-026376-3.
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