Bill Frawley
Chair, Dept. of Linguistics

Postal Address	Phone	FAX	Email
Dept. of Linguistics University of Delaware 46 E. Delaware (Rm 103) Newark, DE 19716	(302) 831-6706	(302) 831-6896	billf@copland.udel.edu

My areas of research are semantics, psycholinguistics, and discourse/text structure. I work on both theoretical and applied aspects of these fields.

Selected Publications

Books in each area of research:

Text and Epistemology (Ablex, 1987)
Linguistic Semantics (Erlbaum, 1992)
Vygotsky and Cognitive Science: Language and the Unification of the Social and Computational Mind (Harvard University Press, 1997).
Recent publications:
- Fundamental issues in lexical semantics. Handbook of Lexicology, D.A. Cruse et al., eds. Berlin: de Gruyter, in press.
- (with Roberta Golinkoff et al.) Lexical Principles can Be Extended to the Acquisition of Verbs. Beyond Names for Things, M. Tomasello and W. Merriman, eds. Erlbaum, 1995.
- "Texts, Disciplines, and (Meta)consciousness." Proceedings of the Poetics and Linguistics Association, J.L. Martinez, ed. (U. of Granada, in press).
- Remarks on the lexicographical treatment of metaforms. Lexikos 6(1996), 1-13.
- "Sociocomputationalism: New Perspectives on Vygotsky and L2." Signo y Sena, in press.
Personal Interests
- Fishing, Baseball, Persian Cats
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