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Eric Pederson, Mentor
Linguistics

Emily Hayes, McNair Scholar

Associate Professor Eric Pederson earned his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and joined the UO Linguistics faculty in 1997 where he is currently department head.  His areas of interest are psycholinguistics, semantics, typology, anthropological linguistics, and Dravidian languages.  He has a general concern for the relation of language and language processing to general cognition. He assumes that any particular linguistic patterns also potentially reflect patterns of thought beyond this language use.  His recent publications include “Event Realization in Tamil” in Crosslinguistic perspectives on argument structure: Implications for learnability, P. Brown and M. Bowerman, eds. Lawrence Erlbaum (2007); “Cognitive Linguistics and linguistics relativity,” in The Cognitive Linguistics Handbook, D. Geeraerts and H. Cuyckens, eds. Oxford University Press (2007); and “Tamil Spatial Language,” in The Grammars of Space, S. Levinson and D. Wilkins eds. Cambridge University Press (2006).