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Stefan Th. Gries
Born1970
Hamburg, West Germany
Alma materUniversity of Hamburg
Scientific career
Fieldscorpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics
Institutions

Stefan Th. Gries (['ʃtɛfɐn 'tʰoːmɐs 'ɡʁiːs]) is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Honorary Liebig-Professor of the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen (since September 2011),[1] and since 1 April 2018 also Chair of English Linguistics[2] (Corpus Linguistics with a focus on quantitative methods, 25%) in the Department of English[3] at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen.

Career

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Gries earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Hamburg, Germany in 1998 and 2000 and his Habilitation/Venia Legendi at the University of Marburg in 2024.[4] He was at the Department of Business Communication and Information Science of the University of Southern Denmark at Sønderborg (1998–2005), first as a lecturer, then as assistant professor and tenured associate professor; during that time, he also taught English linguistics part-time at the Department of British and American Studies of the University of Hamburg. In 2005, he spent 10 months as a visiting scholar in the Psychology Department of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, before he accepted a position at UCSB, starting November 1, 2005.[5] Gries was a visiting professor at the 2007, 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2019 LSA Linguistic Institutes at Stanford University,[6] the University of Colorado at Boulder,[7] the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,[8] the University of Chicago,[9] and the University of California, Davis.[10] He was also a Visiting Chair (2013–2017) of the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University and the Leibniz Professor (spring semester 2017) at the Research Academy Leipzig of the Leipzig University.[11], [12]

Research

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Methodologically, Gries is a quantitative corpus linguist at the intersection of corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and quantitative linguistics, who uses a variety of different statistical methods to investigate linguistic topics such as morphophonology (the formation of morphological blends),[13] syntax (syntactic alternations), the syntax-lexis interface (collostructional analysis),[14] and semantics (polysemy, antonymy, and near synonymy in English and Russian)[15][16] and corpus-linguistic methodology (corpus homogeneity and comparisons, association and dispersion measures, n-gram identification and exploration, and other quantitative methods), as well as first and second/foreign language acquisition [17][18] and corpus linguistics and legal interpretation.[19][20] Occasionally and mainly collaboratively, he also uses experimental methods (acceptability judgments, sentence completion, priming, self-paced reading times, and sorting tasks). As per five of the last six books he has written and the last book he co-edited, much of his recent work involves the open source software R.

Theoretically, he is a cognitively oriented usage-based linguist (with an interest in Construction Grammar) in the wider sense of seeking explanations in terms of cognitive processes without being a cognitive linguist in the narrower sense of following any one particular cognitive-linguistic theory. The researchers who have influenced his work most are R. Harald Baayen, Douglas Biber, Nick C. Ellis, Adele E. Goldberg, and Michael Tomasello.

Publications

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Books written by Gries

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  • Gries, Stefan Th. 2003. Multifactorial Analysis in Corpus Linguistics: A Study of Particle Placement. Open Linguistics. New York: Continuum. ISBN 9780826461261 (hardback); ISBN 9780826476067
  • Gries, Stefan Th. 2008. Statistik für Sprachwissenschaftler. Studienbücher zur Linguistik, vol 13. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. ISBN 9783525265512.
  • Gries, Stefan Th. 2009. Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R: A Practical Introduction. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415962711 (hardback); ISBN 9780415962704
  • Gries, Stefan Th. 2009. Statistics for Linguistics with R: A Practical Introduction. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110205657.
  • Gries, Stefan Th. 2013. Statistics for Linguistics with R: A Practical Introduction. 2nd rev. & ext. ed. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110307283 (also translated into Korean, Chinese, and Brazilian Portuguese).
  • Gries, Stefan Th. 2016. Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R: A Practical Introduction. 2nd rev. & ext. ed. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781138816275; ISBN 9781138816282.
  • Gries, Stefan Th. 2017. Ten Lectures on Quantitative Approaches in Cognitive Linguistics: Corpus-Linguistic, Experimental, and Statistical Applications. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004336216
  • Gries, Stefan Th. 2019 Ten Lectures on Corpus Linguistics with R: Applications for usage-based and psycholinguistic research. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004410343
  • Gries, Stefan Th. 2021. Statistics for Linguistics with R: A Practical Introduction. 3rd rev. & ext. ed. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110718164.
  • Gries, Stefan Th. 2024. Frequency, Dispersion, Association, and Keyness: Revising and tupleizing corpus-linguistic measures. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. ISBN 9789027214928.

Books co-edited by Gries

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  • Gries, Stefan Th. & Anatol Stefanowitsch (eds.) 2006. Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics: Corpus-Based Approaches to Syntax and Lexis. Berlin & New York: Mouton De Gruyter. ISBN 9783110186055 (hardback); ISBN 9783110197709 (paperback).
  • Stefanowitsch, Anatol & Stefan Th. Gries (eds.). 2006. Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy. Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783119162906 (hardback); ISBN 9783110198270 (paperback).
  • Gries, Stefan Th., Stefanie Wulff, & Mark Davies (eds.). 2010. Corpus-Linguistic Applications: Current Studies, New Directions. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi. ISBN 9789042028012.
  • Brdar, Mario, Stefan Th. Gries, & Milena Žic Fuchs (eds.). 2011. Cognitive Linguistics: Convergence and Expansion. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. ISBN 9789027223869.
  • Divjak, Dagmar & Stefan Th. Gries (eds.) 2012. Frequency Effects in Language Representation. Berlin & Boston: Mouton De Gruyter. ISBN 9783110273786.
  • Gries, Stefan Th. & Dagmar Divjak (eds.). 2012. Frequency Effects in Language Learning and Processing. Berlin & Boston: Mouton De Gruyter. ISBN 9783110273762.
  • Yoon, Jiyoung & Stefan Th. Gries (eds.). 2016. Corpus-Based Approaches to Construction Grammar. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. ISBN 9789027204417.
  • Paquot, Magali & Stefan Th. Gries (eds.). 2020. A Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Berlin & New York: Springer. ISBN 9783030462154.

Others

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Gries has co-edited a special issue of the Brazilian Journal of Applied Linguistics.[21] He has (co-)written articles in Cognitive Linguistics,[22] International Journal of Corpus Linguistics[23] and many other peer-reviewed journals. He was the co-founder (2005), editor-in-chief (2010-2015), general editor (2016-2023), and co-editor-in-chief (2005-2010, 2024-) of the international peer-reviewed journal Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory,[24] co-editor-in-chief of Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science,[25] and associate co-editor of Cognitive Linguistic Studies,[26] and performs editorial functions for the international peer-reviewed journals Brazilian Journal of Applied Linguistics,[21] Cognitive Linguistics,[22] Cognitive Semantics,[27] CogniTextes, Constructions, Constructions and Frames,[28] Corpora,[29] Corpus Linguistics Research, Corpus Pragmatics,[30] Glottotheory, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics,[23] International Journal of Learner Corpus Research,[31] Journal of Language Modelling,[32] Journal of Second Language Studies,[33] Language and Cognition,[34] Research Methods in Applied Linguistics,[35] Forum for Linguistic Studies, Ampersand,[36] and Linguistics and Literature Review as well as for the book series Cognitive Linguistics in Practice,[37] Studies in Corpus Linguistics,[38] Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics,[39] Corpora and Language in Use[40] and Explorations in English Language and Linguistics.[41]

References

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  1. ^ "JLU verleiht Sprachwissenschaftler Stefan Thomas Gries die Liebig-Professur", Gießener Anzeiger, 15 September 2011.
  2. ^ "Professors — Department of English". Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen.
  3. ^ "Department of English". www.uni-giessen.de. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
  4. ^ "Stefan Th. Gries | Department of Linguistics - UC Santa Barbara".
  5. ^ "Stefan Th. Gries: CV / Personal". Archived from the original on 2017-01-07. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  6. ^ "Listing of instructors at the 2007 Linguistic Institute | Linguistic Society of America".
  7. ^ "Linguistic Institute 2011: Faculty Listings".
  8. ^ "Listing of courses at the 2013 Linguistic Institute".
  9. ^ "Listing of instructors at the 2015 Linguistic Institute | Linguistic Society of America".
  10. ^ "Courses – 2019 LSA Linguistic Institute".
  11. ^ "Leibniz Professorship". ral.uni-leipzig.de. Archived from the original on 2017-04-05. Retrieved 2017-04-05.
  12. ^ "Universität Leipzig: Linkto".
  13. ^ Gries, Stefan Th. "Cognitive determinants of subtractive word formation: A corpus-based perspective" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-06-14.
  14. ^ "Stefan Th. Gries: Collostructional analysis resource page".
  15. ^ Gries, Stefan Th.; Otani, Naoki. "Behavioral profiles: A corpus-based perspective on synonymy and antonymy" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-06-14.
  16. ^ Divjak, Dagmar; Gries, Stefan Th. "Ways of trying in Russian: clustering behavioral profiles" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-06-15.
  17. ^ Gries, Stefan Th.; Stoll, Sabine. "Finding Developmental Groups in Acquisition Data: Variability-based Neighbour Clustering" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-06-14.
  18. ^ Wulff, Stefanie; Gries, Stefan Th. "Prenominal adjective order preferences in Chinese and German L2 English" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-06-14.
  19. ^ "Corpus approaches to ordinary meaning in legal interpretation" (PDF).
  20. ^ "Talking across the interdisciplinary aisle: A guide for legal and corpus-linguistic scholars and practitioners".
  21. ^ a b "Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada" [Brazilian Journal of Applied Linguistics]. www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-07-25.
  22. ^ a b "Cognitive Linguistics". De Gruyter Mouton. ISSN 1613-3641.
  23. ^ a b "International Journal of Corpus Linguistics". doi:10.1075/ijcl. ISSN 1384-6655.
  24. ^ "Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory". ISSN 1613-7035.
  25. ^ "Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science". Equinox Publishing Ltd.
  26. ^ "Cognitive Linguistic Studies". John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi:10.1075/cogls. ISSN 2213-8722.
  27. ^ "Cognitive Semantics". Brill.
  28. ^ "Constructions and Frames". John Benjamins. doi:10.1075/cf. ISSN 1876-1933.
  29. ^ "Corpora". Edinburgh University Press. ISSN 1755-1676.
  30. ^ "Corpus Pragmatics". Springer. ISSN 2509-9515.
  31. ^ "International Journal of Learner Corpus Research". John Benjamins. ISSN 2215-1478.
  32. ^ "Journal of Language Modelling". Institute of Computer Science Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw. ISSN 2299-8470.
  33. ^ "Journal of Second Language Studies". John Benjamins. doi:10.1075/jsls. ISSN 2542-3835.
  34. ^ "Language and Cognition". Cambridge University Press. ISSN 1866-9859.
  35. ^ "Research Methods in Applied Linguistics". ScienceDirect. ISSN 2772-7661.
  36. ^ "Ampersand". ScienceDirect. ISSN 2215-0390.
  37. ^ "Cognitive Linguistics in Practice". John Benjamins. doi:10.1075/clip. ISSN 1388-6231.
  38. ^ "Studies in Corpus Linguistics". John Benjamins. doi:10.1075/scl. ISSN 1388-0373.
  39. ^ "Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics". Cambridge University Press.
  40. ^ "Corpora and Language in Use". Louvain University Press. ISSN 2034-6417.
  41. ^ "ExELL - Explorations in English Language and Linguistics". the School of English Studies of the University Josip Juraj Strossmayer Osijek, Croatia and English Language and Literature Department of Tuzla University from Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. ISSN 2303-4858.
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