Prof. Dr. Paul Hopper – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies

Prof. Dr. Paul Hopper

Carnegie Mellon University
English and General Linguistics

External Senior Fellow (FRIAS School of Language & Literature)
May 2008
March 2009
May 2009
May 2010 – June 2010
May 2012
May 2013 – June 2013

E-Mail: hopper@cmu.edu

Last Update: 31.08.2013

Curriculum Vitae

Paul J. Hopper currently holds the Paul Mellon Distinguished Chair of the Humanities at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh . His Ph.D., in Linguistics, is from the University of Texas. He studied at the University of Reading, England, and at the University of Erlangen. He has been Visiting Professor of Linguistics at the University of Köln and Directeur d’Études at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, the Sorbonne, Paris. In 2001 he was awarded the Medal of the Collège de France. He has been a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation (1985) and was the Hermann and Klara Collitz Professor of Comparative Philology, at the Linguistic Society of America Linguistics Institute at UCLA in 1984. His publications include works on Germanic and Indo-European linguistics, Malay and Indonesian, grammaticalization, and discourse analysis.

Selected Publications

2008. “Zeitlichkeit und sprachliche Struktur: Pseudoclefts im Englischen und Deutschen.” By Susanne Günthner and Paul J. Hopper. Submitted to Gesprächsforschung On-line.
2008. “Projectability and Clause Combining in Interaction,” by Paul J. Hopper and Sandra A. Thompson. In Ritva Laury, ed. Crosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining: The Multifunctionality of Conjunctions, 99-123. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2008. (Typological Studies in Language 80)
2008. “The openness of grammatical constructions.” In Nikki Adams, Adam Cooper, Fay Parrill and Thomas Wier, eds., Proceedings from the Panels of the 40th Annual Meeting (2004) of the Chicago Linguistic Society: Panel on Dispensing with Derivation: Monostratal Theories of Grammar, 153-75. Chicago: The Chicago Linguistic Society, 2008.
2008. “Die Bedeutsamkeit der mündlichen Interaktion für die Linguistik: Die Pseudocleft-Konstruktion im Englischen.” In Anatol Stefanowitsch and Kerstin Fischer, eds., Konstruktionsgrammatik II: Von der Konstruktion zur Grammatik, 179-88. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag Brigitte Narr, 2008. (Band 47)
2007. “Emergent Serialization in English: Pragmatics and Typology.” In Jeff Good, ed., Language Universals and Language Change. London: Oxford University Press, 2007, 520-54.

FRIAS Project

Studies in Emergent Grammar.

The study of language on the basis of natural conversations has led many linguists to a reassessment of the nature and role of grammatical structure. One aspect of this reassessment has been attention to the emergence of grammatical form as it unfolds in conversational interactions. During my stay at FRIAS in May and June 2013 I will be continuing my research on Emergent Grammar, with particular attention to the English demonstrative pronouns from the point of view of Auer’s theory of on-line syntax.