Croft, William, 1956-

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Name (Latin)
Croft, William, 1956-
Other forms of name
Croft, William
Date of birth
1956-11-13
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
Born Nov. 13, 1956, William Albert
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 19727961
Wikidata: Q2578365
Library of congress: n 88152590
TAU10: 000546897
Sources of Information
  • Explaining lang. change, 2000:CIP t.p. (William Croft) CIP data sheet (b. Nov. 13, 1956)
  • His Typology and universals, 1990:CIP t.p. (William Crof, Program in Linguistics, Univ. of Mich.)
  • Letter from author(Born Nov. 13, 1956, William Albert)
  • Morphosyntax, 2022:ECIP t.p. (William Croft) data view (b. 1956)
  • Prof. William Croft profile on UNM.edu, viewed Jan. 5, 2022:CV (positions: Linguistics Professor (2006-2018) and Professor Emeritus (2019-) at University of New Mexico; Lecturer and Professor at University of Manchester, UK (1994-2005); Assistant Professor at University of Michigan (1986-1993); education: Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University (1986); A.B. in Linguistics from The University of Chicago (1978))
  • Ten lectures on construction grammar and typology, 2020:ECIP title page (William Croft) data view (PhD, 1986, from Stanford Univ; professor of linguistics, University of New Mexico)
  • His Typology and universals, 1990
  • Explaining lang. change, 2000
  • Letter from author

Wikipedia description:

William Croft (born November 13, 1956) is an American professor of linguistics at the University of New Mexico, United States. From 1994 to 2005 he was successively research fellow, lecturer, reader and professor in Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the inventor of and advocate for radical construction grammar, which among other things uses box-diagrams to compare and contrast the grammatical features of different natural languages. William Croft is a member of Save the Redwoods League's Board of Councillors.

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