William Croft (linguist)

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William Croft (born November 13, 1956) is a professor of linguistics at the University of New Mexico, United States.

He is inventor of and advocate for radical construction grammar, which among other things uses box-diagrams to compare and contrast the grammatical features of different natural languages.

William Croft is a member of Save-the-Redwoods League's Board of Councilors and an ancient tree aficionado.

Partial bibliography

Cognitive Linguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) (2004) with D. A. Cruse ISBN 0-521-66770-4
Typology and Universals, 2nd ed. (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) (2003) ISBN 0-521-00499-3
- 1st ed. (1990) ISBN 0-521-36583-X
Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic theory in typological perspective (2001) ISBN 0-19-829954-0