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Eve Sweetser Professor (semantics, syntax, historical linguistics, Celtic languages, speech act theory, metaphor theory, semantic change, grammaticalization, gesture) Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1984. Her primary research interests include historical linguistics, semantics and meaning changes, the semantics of grammatical constructions, cognitive linguistics, metaphor and iconicity, subjectivity and viewpoint, the relationship between language and gesture, and the Celtic language family. Her 1990 book, FROM ETYMOLOGY TO PRAGMATICS (Cambridge University Press), explores generalizations about synchronic and diachronic patterns of meaning in the areas of model verbs and conjunctions. She currently directs UCB’s undergraduate Cognitive Science Program and also teaches in the Celtic Studies Program. She has published articles on topics including modality, polysemy, metaphor, conditional constructions, gesture, and Medieval Welsh poetics, and has a forthcoming book on English conditional constructions co-authored with Barbara Dancygier. Selected Publications:
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