Stefan Th. Gries Explained

Stefan Th. Gries
Birth Date:1970
Birth Place:Hamburg, West Germany
Fields:corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics
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Alma Mater:University of Hamburg

Stefan Th. Gries (['ʃtɛfɐn 'tʰoːmɐs 'ɡʁiːs]) is (full) professor of linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Honorary Liebig-Professor of the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen (since September 2011),[1] and since 1 April 2018 also Chair of English Linguistics[2] (Corpus Linguistics with a focus on quantitative methods, 25%) in the Department of English[3] at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen.

Career

Gries earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Hamburg, Germany, in 1998 and 2000.[4] He was at the Department of Business Communication and Information Science of the University of Southern Denmark at Sønderborg (1998–2005), first as a lecturer, then as assistant professor and tenured associate professor; during that time, he also taught English linguistics part-time at the Department of British and American Studies of the University of Hamburg. In 2005, he spent 10 months as a visiting scholar in the Psychology Department of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, before he accepted a position at UCSB, starting November 1, 2005.[5] Gries was a visiting professor at the 2007, 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2019 LSA Linguistic Institutes at Stanford University,[6] the University of Colorado at Boulder,[7] the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,[8] the University of Chicago,[9] and the University of California, Davis.[10] He was also a Visiting Chair (2013–2017) of the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University and the Leibniz Professor (spring semester 2017) at the Research Academy Leipzig of the Leipzig University.[11] , [12]

Research

Methodologically, Gries is a quantitative corpus linguist at the intersection of corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and quantitative linguistics, who uses a variety of different statistical methods to investigate linguistic topics such as morphophonology (the formation of morphological blends),[13] syntax (syntactic alternations), the syntax-lexis interface (collostructional analysis),[14] and semantics (polysemy, antonymy, and near synonymy in English and Russian)[15] [16] and corpus-linguistic methodology (corpus homogeneity and comparisons, association and dispersion measures, n-gram identification and exploration, and other quantitative methods), as well as first and second/foreign language acquisition [17] [18] and corpus linguistics and legal interpretation.[19] [20] Occasionally and mainly collaboratively, he also uses experimental methods (acceptability judgments, sentence completion, priming, self-paced reading times, and sorting tasks). As per five of the last six books he has written and the last book he co-edited, much of his recent work involves the open source software R.

Theoretically, he is a cognitively oriented usage-based linguist (with an interest in Construction Grammar) in the wider sense of seeking explanations in terms of cognitive processes without being a cognitive linguist in the narrower sense of following any one particular cognitive-linguistic theory. The researchers who have influenced his work most are R. Harald Baayen, Douglas Biber, Nick C. Ellis, Adele E. Goldberg, and Michael Tomasello.

Publications

Books written by Gries

Books co-edited by Gries

Others

Gries has co-edited a special issue of the Brazilian Journal of Applied Linguistics.[21] He has (co-)written articles in Cognitive Linguistics,[22] International Journal of Corpus Linguistics[23] and many other peer-reviewed journals. He was the co-founder (2005), editor-in-chief (2010-2015), general editor (2016-2023), and co-editor-in-chief (2005-2010, 2024-) of the international peer-reviewed journal Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory[24] (of which he now is the General Editor, 2016-), co-editor-in-chief of Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science,[25] and associate co-editor of Cognitive Linguistic Studies,[26] and performs editorial functions for the international peer-reviewed journals Brazilian Journal of Applied Linguistics,[21] Cognitive Linguistics,[22] Cognitive Semantics,[27] CogniTextes, Constructions, Constructions and Frames,[28] Corpora,[29] Corpus Linguistics Research, Corpus Pragmatics,[30] Glottotheory, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics,[23] International Journal of Learner Corpus Research,[31] Journal of Language Modelling,[32] Journal of Second Language Studies,[33] Language and Cognition,[34] Research Methods in Applied Linguistics,[35] Forum for Linguistic Studies, Ampersand,[36] and Linguistics and Literature Review as well as for the book series Cognitive Linguistics in Practice,[37] Studies in Corpus Linguistics,[38] Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics,[39] Corpora and Language in Use[40] and Explorations in English Language and Linguistics.[41]

External links

Notes and References

  1. "JLU verleiht Sprachwissenschaftler Stefan Thomas Gries die Liebig-Professur", Gießener Anzeiger, 15 September 2011.
  2. Web site: Professors — Department of English. Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen.
  3. Web site: Department of English . www.uni-giessen.de . 2024-07-25.
  4. Web site: Stefan Th. Gries | Department of Linguistics - UC Santa Barbara.
  5. Web site: Stefan Th. Gries: CV / Personal . 2017-01-07 . 2017-01-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170107171634/http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/stgries/other/private.html#EducationQualification . dead .
  6. Web site: Listing of instructors at the 2007 Linguistic Institute | Linguistic Society of America.
  7. Web site: Linguistic Institute 2011: Faculty Listings.
  8. Web site: Listing of courses at the 2013 Linguistic Institute.
  9. Web site: Listing of instructors at the 2015 Linguistic Institute | Linguistic Society of America.
  10. Web site: Courses – 2019 LSA Linguistic Institute.
  11. Web site: Leibniz Professorship . ral.uni-leipzig.de . 2017-04-05 . 2017-04-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170405171108/http://www.ral.uni-leipzig.de/en/home/research-academy-leipzig/structure/leibniz-programme/leibniz-professorship/ . dead .
  12. Web site: Universität Leipzig: Linkto.
  13. Web site: Gries . Stefan Th. . Cognitive determinants of subtractive word formation: A corpus-based perspective . 2024-06-14.
  14. Web site: Stefan Th. Gries: Collostructional analysis resource page.
  15. Web site: Gries . Stefan Th. . Otani . Naoki . Behavioral profiles: A corpus-based perspective on synonymy and antonymy . 2024-06-14.
  16. Web site: Divjak . Dagmar . Dagmar Divjak. Gries . Stefan Th. . Ways of trying in Russian: clustering behavioral profiles . 2024-06-15.
  17. Web site: Gries . Stefan Th. . Stoll . Sabine . Finding Developmental Groups in Acquisition Data: Variability-based Neighbour Clustering . 2024-06-14.
  18. Web site: Wulff . Stefanie . Gries . Stefan Th. . Prenominal adjective order preferences in Chinese and German L2 English . 2024-06-14.
  19. Web site: Corpus approaches to ordinary meaning in legal interpretation.
  20. Web site: Talking across the interdisciplinary aisle: A guide for legal and corpus-linguistic scholars and practitioners.
  21. Web site: Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada . pt . Brazilian Journal of Applied Linguistics . www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br . 2024-07-25.
  22. Web site: Cognitive Linguistics . 1613-3641 . De Gruyter Mouton.
  23. Web site: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics . 1384-6655 . 10.1075/ijcl.
  24. Web site: Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory . 1613-7035 .
  25. Web site: Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science . Equinox Publishing Ltd.
  26. Web site: Cognitive Linguistic Studies . 2213-8722 . John Benjamins Publishing Company . 10.1075/cogls.
  27. Web site: Cognitive Semantics . Brill.
  28. Web site: Constructions and Frames . John Benjamins . 1876-1933 . 10.1075/cf.
  29. Web site: Corpora . Edinburgh University Press . 1755-1676 .
  30. Web site: Corpus Pragmatics . 2509-9515 . Springer.
  31. Web site: International Journal of Learner Corpus Research . John Benjamins . 2215-1478.
  32. Web site: Journal of Language Modelling . Institute of Computer Science Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw . 2299-8470.
  33. Web site: Journal of Second Language Studies . John Benjamins . 2542-3835 . 10.1075/jsls.
  34. Web site: Language and Cognition . Cambridge University Press . 1866-9859.
  35. Web site: Research Methods in Applied Linguistics . ScienceDirect . 2772-7661.
  36. Web site: Ampersand . ScienceDirect . 2215-0390.
  37. Web site: Cognitive Linguistics in Practice . John Benjamins . 1388-6231 . 10.1075/clip.
  38. Web site: Studies in Corpus Linguistics . John Benjamins . 1388-0373 . 10.1075/scl.
  39. Web site: Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics . Cambridge University Press.
  40. Web site: Corpora and Language in Use . Louvain University Press . 2034-6417.
  41. Web site: ExELL - Explorations in English Language and Linguistics . the School of English Studies of the University Josip Juraj Strossmayer Osijek, Croatia and English Language and Literature Department of Tuzla University from Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina . 2303-4858.

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