Ronald W. Langacker
ORCID iD https://profiles.ucsd.edu/ronald.langacker
University of California Department of Linguistics San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive #0108 La Jolla, CA 92093-0108
United States

Ronald W. Langacker, Prof. Dr. is retired after many years as Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego. He was instrumental in establishing the movement of Cognitive Linguistics, starting with his introduction of the framework of Cognitive Grammar. It showed that a properly formulated conceptualist semantics provides the basis for a unified account of meaning and grammar. Later work in this framework suggests the possibility of a unified treatment of structure, processing, and discourse.

Major publications:

2021: Functions and Assemblies. In Kazuhiro Kodama and Tetsuharu Koyama (Eds.), The Forefront of  Cognitive Linguistics (pp.  1-54). Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.

2016: Toward an Integrated View of Structure, Processing, and Discourse. In G. Drożdż (Ed.), Studies in Lexicogrammar: Theory and Applications (pp. 23-53). Amsterdam,Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Human Cognitive Processing 54.

2008: Cognitive Grammar: A Basic Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press.

1991: Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, Vol. 2: Descriptive Application. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

1987: Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, vol. 1, Theoretical Prerequisites. Stanford: Stanford University Press.