Competing Motivations in Grammar and Usage
Edited by Brian MacWhinney, Andrej Malchukov, and Edith Moravscik
Author Information
Brian MacWhinney is Professor of Psychology, Computational Linguistics, and Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University. He has developed a model of first and second language acquisition, processing, and disorders called the Competition Model, which describes how language learning emerges from forces operating on lexically-based patterns across divergent timeframes. It has been tested through cross-linguistic experimentation, neuroimaging, online language learning, and analysis of the CHILDES and TalkBank corpora. His recent publications include The CHILDES Project: Tools for Analyzing Talk (3rd ed; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000) and, co-edited with Roberta Klatzky and Marlene Behrmann, Embodiment, Ego-Space, and Action (Psychology Press 2008).
Andrej Malchukov is a Senior Researcher at the St. Petersburg Institute for Linguistic Research (Russian Academy of Sciences) and is currently affiliated to the University of Mainz as a Visiting Professor. In addition to descriptive work on Siberian languages, his main research interests lie in the domain of language typology. His publications include the edited volumes The Oxford Handbook of Case (with Andrew Spencer; OUP 2009), Studies in Ditransitive Constructions: A Comparative Handbook (with Bernard Comrie and Martin Haspelmath; Mouton de Gruyter 2010) and Impersonal Constructions: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (with Anna Siewierska; John Benjamins 2011).
Edith Moravscik is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she has taught for over 30 years. Her publications include the textbooks An Introduction to Syntax and An Introduction to Syntactic Theory (both Continuum 2006), and Introducing Language Typology (CUP 2013) and the edited volumes Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics (with Michael Darnell, Frederick Newmeyer, Michael Noonan, and Kathleen Wheatley; John Benjamins 1999) and Formulaic Language (with Roberta Corrigan, Hamid Ouali, and Kathleen Wheatley). She has also published a number of articles on language typology and universals, Hungarian grammar, and conflict resolution.
Contributors:
Shanley E. M. Allen, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Mira Ariel, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewksy, University of Marburg, Germany
Angel Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Sonia Cristofaro, University of Pavia, Italy
Helen de Hoop, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Wolfgang U. Dressler, University of Vienna, Austria
John W. Du Bois, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Elaine J. Francis, Purdue University, USA
John Haiman, Macalester College, USA
Martin Haspelmath, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
John A. Hawkins, University of California Davis, USA
Bernd Heine, University of Cologne, Germany
Johannes Helmbrecht, University of Regensburg, Germany
Mary E. Hughes, Boston University, USA
Gunther Kaltenböck, University of Vienna, Austria
Katharina Korecky-Kröll, University of Vienna, Austria
Grzegorz Krajewski, University of Warsaw, Poland
Monique J. A. Lamers, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Gary Libben, Brock University, USA
Elena Lieven, University of Manchester, UK
Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Andrej Malchukov, St Petersburg Institute for Linguistic Research, Russia
Laura A. Michaelis, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Britta Mondorf, Mainz University, Germany
Edith Moravcsik, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Frederick J. Newmeyer, University of Washington, USA
Claire Noble, University of Manchester, UK
Martin Pfeiffer, University of Freiburg, Germany
Caroline F. Rowland, University of Liverpool, UK
Matthias Schlesewsky, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany
Jan Strunk, University of Cologne, Germany
