Andrew Radford (linguist)

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Andrew Radford
structure building model of child language acquisition
Scientific career
FieldsGenerative grammar, syntax, child language acquisition
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of East Anglia, University College of North Wales, University of Essex
Doctoral advisorPieter Seuren: a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen

Andrew Radford is a British linguist known for his work in

Minimalist Program of Noam Chomsky, a number of which have appeared in the series Cambridge
Textbooks in Linguistics.

In the 1990s, Radford was a pioneer of the maturation-based

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, and numerous articles on the acquisition of syntax by monolingual, bilingual and language-disordered children.

Since 2010, Radford has researched the syntax of

colloquial English, using data recorded from unscripted radio and TV broadcasts. He produced a research monograph on this, and a number of articles, and is preparing a follow-up research monograph on the syntax of relative clauses in colloquial English.[5][6]

Since January 2014, Radford has been an Emeritus Professor of the Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex.[7]

Education

Radford was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, reading Modern Languages (French, Italian and Romanian), Linguistics and Romance Philology.[7] He graduated with a first-class degree and was awarded a research scholarship by Trinity College, Cambridge. He completed a PhD on Italian syntax there, supervised by Pieter Seuren.[citation needed]

Career

Radford was a Research Fellow in Linguistics at Trinity College, Cambridge[7] from 1971 to 1975, before taking up posts as lecturer in Linguistics in the School of English & American Studies at the University of East Anglia (1975–76), Lecturer in Linguistics in the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages at the University of Oxford (1976–78), and Reader in Linguistics in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex (1978–80). In 1980, he became Professor of Linguistics at the University College of North Wales, serving first as Head of the Department of Linguistics (1980–87), and later as Head of the School of Modern Languages and Linguistics (1987–89).[citation needed] In 1989, he returned to the University of Essex 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.[7] He retired at the end of 2013, and has been Emeritus Professor at Essex since then.[7]

He 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.

Structure building model

In his 1990 book, Syntactic Theory and the Acquisition of English Syntax,

complementiser
).

Publications

Books by Radford

Some books by Andrew Radford (flanked by irrelevant Pelicans)

Books cowritten by Radford

Other selected publications (2012–)

References

  1. JSTOR 4175462
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  2. JSTOR 414616
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  3. ISBN 978-0-19-2632487
    .
  4. ISBN 978-3-11-026376-3
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  5. ^ See (2012a, 2013, 2015b) within "Other selected publications".
  6. ^ Colloquial English: Structure and Variation, Cambridge University Press. Accessed 10 January 2018.
  7. ^ a b c d e "People: Professor Andrew Radford". University of Essex.
  8. ISBN 978-0-631-16358-9
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  9. ^ Joseph Galasso, "Synopsis of the Structure-building model of Andrew Radford (1990): And other maturational hypotheses leading to child development theories of the time" (MS, California State University Northridge, 2017).
  10. ^ Noam Chomsky, Lectures on Government and Binding (Dordrecht: Foris, 1981), and Some notes on Economy of Derivation and Representation (MS, MIT, 1988).
  11. ^ Hagit Borer and Kenneth Wexler, "The maturation of Syntax" (1983); in Thomas Roeper and Edwin Williams (eds), Parameter Setting (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 2013), pp. 123–172.

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