John A. Hawkins is Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics (RCEAL) at the University of Cambridge. ^[1] As of 2007 he is also a professor in the Department of Linguistics at UC Davis. ^[2]

Contents

• Selected publications
• References
• External links

His main research interests are in English grammar, psycholinguistics, language universals, linguistic typology and historical linguistics.

Selected publications

• Definiteness and Indefiniteness (1978, Humanities Press & Croom Helm; 2015, Routledge)
• Word Order Universals (1983, Academic Press)
• A Comparative Typology of English and German (1986, University of Texas Press; 2015, Routledge)
• [Editor] Explaining Language Universals (1988, Basil Blackwell)
• A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency (1994, Cambridge University Press)
• Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars (2004, Oxford University Press)
• Cross-linguistic Variation and Efficiency (2014, Oxford University Press)

References

External links

• Hawkins at the University of Cambridge
• Hawkins at UC Davis

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