Lynne Murphy Explained

Workplaces:	University of Sussex
Discipline:	Linguist
Sub Discipline:	Lexicology

M. Lynne Murphy (born 1965) is a professor of linguistics at the University of Sussex, England.^[1] She runs the blog Separated by a Common Language^[2] under the username Lynneguist and has written five books.

Studies

Murphy has a B.A. in Linguistics and Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, as well as an A.M. and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.^[3]

Career

Murphy taught at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and Baylor University in Texas. In 2000, she moved to England and began teaching at the University of Sussex where she became a professor. Her linguistic research specialises in semantics, in particular semantic relations.^[4]

She has written 5 books: Semantic Relations and the Lexicon,^[5] Key Terms in Semantics,^[6] Lexical Meaning,^[7] Antonyms in English,^[8] and The Prodigal Tongue.^{[1] [2] [9] [10]}

Her book The Prodigal Tongue (for which she received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities^[11]), and her blog Separated by a Common Language, compare American English and British English.

In 2012, she gave a TEDx talk at the University of Sussex,^[12] and in 2016 spoke at the Boring Conference.^[13]

Honors and awards

Murphy received a grant from the NEH Public Scholars Program for her most recent book, The Prodigal Tongue.

Selected publications

Books

• M. Lynne Murphy. 2003. Semantic relations and the lexicon: antonymy, synonymy and other paradigms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• M. Lynne Murphy. 2010. Lexical meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Lynne Murphy. 2018. The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-hate Relationship Between American and British English. Penguin.

Journal articles

• Steven Jones and M. Lynne Murphy. 2005. "Using corpora to investigate antonym acquisition," International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10 (3), 401-422.
• Steven Jones, Carita Paradis, M Lynne Murphy, and Caroline Willners. 2007. "Googling for ‘opposites’: A Web-based study of antonym canonicity," Corpora 2 (2), 129-154.
• M. Lynne Murphy and Steven Jones, 2008. "Antonyms in children's and child-directed speech," First Language 28 (4), 403-430.

External links

• Murphy's Separated by a Common Language blog

Notes and References

1. News: 2020-01-11. The Prodigal Tongue by Lynne Murphy — the language of Shakespeare. Financial Times. 23 March 2018 .
2. Web site: 2020-01-11. Opinion: U.S. And U.K. Remain United, Not Divided, By Their Common Language. NPR.org.
3. Web site: M.Lynne Murphy : University of Sussex. www.sussex.ac.uk.
4. Web site: M. Lynne Murphy . 2023-05-21 . scholar.google.com.
5. Web site: Semantic relations and lexicon antonymy synonymy and other paradigms | Semantics and pragmatics. Cambridge University Press.
6. Web site: Key Terms in Semantics. Bloomsbury Publishing.
7. Web site: Lexical meaning | Semantics and pragmatics. Cambridge University Press.
8. Web site: Antonyms english construals constructions and canonicity | Semantics and pragmatics. Cambridge University Press.
9. News: Sarah. Lyall. 2020-01-11. You Say 'To-may-to,' I Say 'To-mah-to'. The New York Times. 15 June 2018. 0362-4331. NYTimes.com.
10. Web site: 2020-01-11. Lynne Murphy: The Prodigal Tongue review - two nations divided by a common language?. theartsdesk.com. 25 March 2018 .
11. Web site: Lynne Murphy . National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
12. Web site: TEDxSussexUniversity - Lynne Murphy - American and British Politeness. www.youtube.com.
13. Web site: BORING VI – SPEAKERS. May 4, 2016.