John Taylor

BA (Cantab), MPhil (R'dg), DrPhil (Trier)

Expertise

• phonetics and phonology
• Germanic languages
• Romance languages

Research

• cogntive grammar
• spatial relations
• phonetics

Biography

John Taylor has held positions in Germany and in South Africa. Currently he is the managing editor of Cogntive Linguistics Research (Mouton de Gruyter) and is on the editorial board of the Functions of Language (John Benjamins), and of the journal Cognitive Linguistics .His recent publications include:

• Language and the Cogntive Construal of the World, 1995. Co-edited with R.E. MacLaury. (Berlin: Mouton de Gruter).
• Linguistic Categorization: Prototype in Linguistic Theory, 1995. 2nd edition. (Oxford University Press), .
• Possessives in English, 1996. (Oxford University Press).

John Taylor is responsible for LING 215 (phonetics and phonology 1), LING 316 (Semantics) and LING 420 (Special Topic in Grammar for Language Teaching) and co-teaches LING111.

Contact details

For further information, John Taylor can be contacted in room 1.N.10.(Arts Building), by phone at 479-8101 or by email at john.taylor@stonebow.otago.ac.nz

Selected Publications

Books

Possessives in English: An Exploration in Cognitive Grammar, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

Cognitive Grammar, Oxford University Press, 2002.

Linguistic Categorization, 3^rd edition, Oxford University Press, 2003. 1st edition: 1989, 2nd edition: 1995.

The Mental Corpus. Under contract with Oxford University Press.

Edited books

Language and the Cognitive Construal of the World. Edited John R Taylor & R. E. MacLaury, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1995.

Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics. Edited H. Cuyckens, R. Dirven, & J. R. Taylor, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2003.

Selected book chapters and entries

'Contrasting prepositional categories: English and Italian.' In Topics in Cognitive Linguistics, ed. B. Rudzka-Ostyn, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1988, 299-326.

(with R. Dirven) 'The conceptualisation of vertical space in English: The case of "tall".' In Topics in Cognitive Linguistics, ed. B. Rudzka-Ostyn, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1988, 379-402.

'Schemas, prototypes, and models: In search of the unity of the sign.' In Meaning and Prototypes: Studies in Linguistic Categorization, ed. S. Tsohatzidis, London: Routledge, 1990, 521-534.

'Some pedagogical implications of cognitive linguistics.' In Conceptualizations and Mental Processing of Language, ed. R. Geiger & B. Rudzka-Ostyn, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993, 201-223.

'Prepositions: Patterns of polysemisation and strategies of disambiguation.' In The Semantics of Prepositions: From Mental Processing to Natural Language Processing, ed. C. Zelinski-Wibbelt, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993, 151-175.

'Models of word meaning in comparison: The two-level model (Manfred Bierwisch) and the network model (Ronald Langacker).' In Current Approaches to the Lexicon, ed. J. Vanparys & R. Dirven, Frankfurt: Lang, 1995, 3-26.

'On construing the world.' In Language and the Cognitive Construal of the world, ed. J. R. Taylor & R. E. MacLaury, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1995, 1-21.

'Syntax and semantics of locativised nouns in Zulu.' In The Construal of Space in Language and Thought, ed. R. Dirven & M. PŸtz, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996, 287-306.

'Foreword.' In Color and Cognition in Mesoamerica: Constructing Categories as Vantages, R. E. MacLaury, Austin: Texas University Press, 1997, xiii-xvi.

(with H. Mondry and R. MacLaury) 'Appendix IV: A cognitive ceiling of eleven basic color terms.' In Color and Cognition in Mesoamerica: Constructing Categories as Vantages, R. E. MacLaury, Austin: Texas University Press, 1997, 419-429.

'Conditionals and polarity.' In On Conditionals Again, ed. A. Athanasiadou & R. Dirven, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1997, 289-306.

'Morphological motivations: Locativised nouns in Zulu.' In Human Contact through Language and Linguistics: A Festschrift for RenŽ Dirven, ed. B. Smieja & M. Tasch, Frankfurt: Lang, 1997, 187-202.

'Double object constructions in Zulu', in The Linguistics of Giving, ed. J. Newman, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1997, 67-96.

(with Th. Mbeki) 'Red dogs and rotten mielies: How Zulus talk about anger.' In Speaking of Emotions, ed. A. Athanasiadou & E. Tabakowska, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1998, 191-226.

'Syntactic constructions as prototype categories.' In The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure, ed. M. Tomasello, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998, 177-202.

'Cognitive semantics and structural semantics.' In Historical Semantics and Cognition, ed. A. Blank & P. Koch, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999, 17-48.

'Category extension by metonymy and metaphor.' In Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast, ed. R. Dirven & R. Pšrings, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002, 323-347. Reprint (with revisions) of Ch 7 of Linguistic Categorization (1995)

'Categories and concepts.' In Job 28: Cognition in Context, ed. E. van Wolde, Leiden: Brill, 2003, 163-78.

'Meaning and context.' In Motivation in Language: Studies in Honor of GŸnter Radden, ed. H. Cuyckens, Th. Berg, R. Dirven & K.-U. Panther, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003, 27-48.

'Cognitive models of polysemy.' In Polysemy: Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language, ed. B. Nerlich, Z. Todd, V. Herman & D. Clarke, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2003, 31-47.

(with H. Cuyckens and R. Dirven) 'New directions in cognitive lexical semantic research.' In Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics, ed. H. Cuyckens, R. Dirven & J. Taylor, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2003, 1-28.

'Grammatical categories.' In Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader, ed. B. Aarts, D. Denison, E. Keizer & G. Popova, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, 294-308. Reprinted from Ch. 10 of Linguistic Categorization, 1995.

'The ecology of constructions.' In Studies in Linguistic Motivation, ed. G. Radden & K.-U. Panther, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004, 49-73.

'Cognitive linguistics and autonomous linguistics.' To appear in Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, ed. D. Geeraerts & H. Cuyckens, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

(with F. Morales) 'Learning from relative frequency.' To appear in Memory and Language, ed. C. Zelinski-Wibbelt.

'Cognitive semantics.' To appear in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2^nd Edition, Oxford: Elsevier.

'Metaphors of linguistic knowledge: The generative metaphor vs. the corpus metaphor.' To appear in Language, Mind and the Lexicon, ed. I. Ibarretxe-Antuñano, C. Inchaurralde & J. S‡nchez.

'Prototypes in cognitive linguistics.' To appear in Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition, ed. P. Robinson & N. Ellis, Lawrence Erlbaum.

'Polysemy and the lexicon.' To appear in Cognitive Linguistics: Foundations and Fields of Application, ed. G. Kristiansen, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Selected articles

'Factuality, tense, intonation, and perspective: Some thoughts on the semantics of "think".' Lingua 62 (1984): 289-317.

'Factuality and intonation.' Journal of Linguistics 20 (1984): 1-21.

'Phonetic factors in word order.' Phonetica 41 (1984): 226-237.

'Things, places, and directions.' Cognitive Linguistics 2 (1991): 357-360.

'Remarks on the PIN - KIN vowels in South African English.' English World-Wide 12 (1991): 75-85.

(with H. Mondry) 'On lying in Russian.' Language & Communication 12 (1992): 133-143.

'How many meanings does a word have?' SPIL (=Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics) PLUS 22 (1992): 312-347.

'Old problems: Adjectives in Cognitive Grammar.' Cognitive Linguistics 3 (1992): 1-46.

'The two-level approach to meaning.' Linguistische Berichte 149 (1994): 3-26.

'Fuzzy categories in syntax: The case of possessives and compounds', Rivista di Linguistica 6 (Special issue on prototype categorization) (1994): 327-346.

'On running and jogging.' Cognitive Linguistics 7 (Special issue on Cognitive Linguistics and Jackendoff's Cognitive Semantics) (1996): 21-34.

'Near synonyms as coextensive categories: "High" and "tall" revisited.' Language Sciences 25 (2003): 263-84.

'Polysemy's paradoxes.' Language Sciences 25 (2003): 637-655.

'Why construction grammar is radical.' Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 2 (2004): 321-348.

(with K. Yoshimura) 'What makes a good middle? The role of constitutive qualia in the interpretation and acceptability of middle expressions in English.' English Language and Linguistics 8.2 (2004): 293-321.

(with N. Ascroft) 'Butter and bread: An interview with John Taylor.' Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 4, 2006, 269-284.

'Motivation.' To appear in Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, 2006.

'Where do phonemes come from? A view from the bottom.' To appear in International Journal of English Studies.

Review of R. Välimaa-Blum, Cognitive Phonology in Construction Grammar: Analytic Tools for Students of English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (2005). Online at http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org/Reviews/valimaa (2006).
Also in International Journal of English Studies 6.2 (2006): 195-200.

‘Things and places: The case of the Zulu locatives’. Language Matters 36.1 (2007): 105-131

‘Semantic categories of “cutting and breaking”: Some final thoughts’. Cognitive Linguistics (Special Issue.  Cutting and breaking events: A crosslinguistic perspective) 18.2 (2007): 331-337.

(with K. Pang) ‘Seeing as though’. To appear in English Language and Linguistics.