- Eve Sweetser
Eve Sweetser is a professor of
linguistics at theUniversity of California, Berkeley , and an important figure in the field ofcognitive linguistics . Some of her more accessible work focuses ongesture , but her other research interests includehistorical linguistics ,semantics , metaphor andiconicity ,subjectivity and viewpoint, and the Celtic language family.Partial bibliography
* "From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure". Eve E. Sweetser.
Cambridge :Cambridge University Press , Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, reprint edition, 1991. ISBN 0-521-42442-9.
* "Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar".Gilles Fauconnier & Eve Sweetser, editors. Chicago &London : The University of Chicago Press, 1996. ISBN 0-226-23924-1 (paperback).External links
* [http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/fac/sweetser.html University of California, Berkeley department of Linguistics page on Eve Sweetser]
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