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Mirjam Fried
Czech Academy of Sciences,Prague, Czech Republic |
Mirjam Fried received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995. She is currently a Senior Scholar in the Czech Language Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, after having taught general linguistics extensively at UC Berkeley, University of Oregon, and Princeton University.
Her research focuses on capturing the cognitive and functional aspects of grammatical structure through the tools of Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics. Her most recent research has focused on questions of variability and change, especially in her pioneering work on bringing together Construction Grammar and grammaticalization research; the idea that (morphos)syntactic change is often best conceptualized as ‘constructionalization’ (i.e., the emergence of new constructions out of previously independent material) is the common thread in several of her recent publications, which all explore the possibilities of representing the gradualness and the discourse-based nature of grammatical change. But she has also published on a wide range of topics in synchronic linguistics, particularly in morphology and morphosyntax (case marking, diathesis, categoriality, the role of pragmatics in grammar, issues of spoken grammar, the relationship between lexical meaning and grammatical patterning, the relationship between grammar and spoken interaction). Her work draws primarily on Czech material (Old and Modern) but includes writings on other languages as well (Kannada, Turkish, Lithuanian). She has also co-authored the only introduction to Construction Grammar that is available to date.
Fried is the co-editor of a book series devoted to constructional research (Constructional Approaches to Language at John Benjamins), serves on the advisory board of the recently launched journal Constructions and Frames, and is a member of numerous editorial boards, including the journal Cognitive Linguistics. She co-organized the first Construction Grammar Conference (ICCG 1) in 2001 and most recently was the chair of the organizing committee for ICCG 6 in 2010.
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| • June 16, 2010 |
| Abstract submission begins. |
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| • October 15, 2010 |
| Theme session proposals due |
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| • November 15, 2010 |
| Abstract submission ends. |
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| • February 15, 2011 |
| Notification of acceptance |
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| • March 15, 2011 |
| Early registration begins. |
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| • July 11-17, 2011 |
| Conference in session |
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Harald Baayen, U. of Alberta, Canada |
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Ewa Dabrowska, Northumbria U., UK |
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Mirjam Fried, Czech Academy of
Sciences,Prague, Czech Republic |
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Kaoru Horie,Nagoya University, Japan |
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Ronald Langacker, UC San Diego, USA |
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John Lucy, The University of Chicago,
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Jiaxuan Shen, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China |
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Contact Us |
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