William B. McGregor

William Bernard McGregor (born 1952) is an Australian linguist and professor in linguistics at Aarhus University.[1] He specializes in the description of mainly non-Pama-Nyungan Australian languages and does descriptive linguistic work on Gooniyandi, Nyulnyul and Warrwa, but also studies the Shua language in Africa. He works on theoretical and typological issues from within a variation of systemic functional linguistics dubbed Semiotic Grammar developed by himself.[2][3]

McGregor is a member of Academia Europaea[4] and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.[5] He is also a Knight of Dannebrog since 2010.[6] Editorial boards that McGregor serves on include the Australian Journal of Linguistics[7] and Language and History.[8]

Biography

McGregor received his PhD degree from the University of Sydney in 1984.[9] In the following decade, he had a number of positions through different institutions in Australia, until he came to Europe. He was first a senior research fellow at KU Leuven in 1998 and then visiting research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen for one and a half year. Since 2000, he has been full professor at Aarhus University.[4]

Selected publications
  • McGregor, William B. (1990). A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN 9789027230256.
  • McGregor, William B. (1997). Semiotic grammar. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0198236883.
  • McGregor, William B. (2011). The Nyulnyul language of Dampier Land, Western Australia (PDF). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Australian National University. ISBN 9780858836471. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  • McGregor, William B. (2015). Linguistics: An Introduction (2. ed.). London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9780567483393.
  • McGregor, William B. (2021). Neo-Firthian Approaches to Linguistic Typology. Sheffield, UK: Equinox Publishing. ISBN 9781781796665.

Referencer
  1. "William Bernard McGregor - Research". pure.au.dk. Aarhus University. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
  2. Willemsen, Jeroen (7 May 2018). "Description, theory and linguistics as a science – an interview with William B. McGregor". Lingoblog.dk. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  3. "Academy of Europe: CV". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  4. "Academy of Europe: McGregor William Bernard". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  5. "Fellow". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
  6. "Modtagere af danske dekorationer". www.kongehuset.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  7. "Australian Journal of Linguistics Editorial Board". www.tandfonline.com. Taylor and Francis. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
  8. "Language & History Editorial Board". www.tandfonline.com. Taylor and Francis. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
  9. McGregor, William B. (1984). A grammar of Kuniyanti: an Australian Aboriginal language of the southern Kimberley, Western Australia (Ph.D. thesis). hdl:2123/15383.
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