John A. Hawkins is Professor of English and

Applied Linguistics Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of the academic fields related to applied linguistics are education, psychology, communication rese ...

at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics (RCEAL) at the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

. As of 2007 he is also a professor in the Department of Linguistics at

UC Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...

. John A. Hawkins, Professor, Linguistics
/ref> His main research interests are in

English grammar English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language. This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, Sentence (linguistics), sentences, and whole texts. This article describes a generalized, present-day Standard English ...

, psycholinguistics,

language universals A linguistic universal is a pattern that occurs systematically across natural languages, potentially true for all of them. For example, ''All languages have nouns and verbs'', or ''If a language is spoken, it has consonants and vowels.'' Research i ...

, linguistic typology and

historical linguistics Historical linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time. Principal concerns of historical linguistics include: # to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages # ...

Selected publications

*Definiteness and Indefiniteness (1978, Humanities Press & Croom Helm; 2015, Routledge) *Word Order Universals (1983, Academic Press) *A Comparative Typology of English and German (1986, University of Texas Press; 2015, Routledge) * ditorExplaining Language Universals (1988, Basil Blackwell) *A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency (1994, Cambridge University Press) *Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars (2004, Oxford University Press) *Cross-linguistic Variation and Efficiency (2014, Oxford University Press)

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