Elizabeth Traugott is a professor in Stanford University. She has done research in historic
al syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, lexicalization, socio-historical linguistics, and linguistics and literature. Her current research focuses on ways to bring the theories of grammaticalization and construction grammar to bear on accounts of micro-changes.
She has been an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and is a Fellow of th
e American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Main Publication
A History of English Syntax (1972)
Linguistics for Students of Literature (with Mary L. Pratt, 1980)
On Conditionals (with Alice ter Meulen, Judith Snitzer Reilly, and Charles A. Ferguson, 1986)
Gram
maticalization (with Paul Hopper, 1993)
Regularity in Semantic Change (with Richard B. Dasher, 2002)
Lexicalization and Language Change (with Laurel J. Brinton, 2005).