Charles J. Fillmore | |
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.jpg) Fillmore in 2012 | |
| Born | August 9, 1929 |
| Died | February 13, 2014 (aged 84) San Francisco, California, US |
| Spouse | Lily Wong Fillmore |
| Awards | 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Computational Linguistics |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Minnesota (B.A, Linguistics)[1] University of Michigan (Ph.D., 1961) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguist |
| Institutions | Ohio State University |
| Notable students | Laura Michaelis, Len Talmy, Eve Sweetser, Miriam R. L. Petruck |
| Main interests | Cognitive linguistics, case grammar, frame semantics, FrameNet |
| Website | linguistics |
Charles J. Fillmore (August 9, 1929 – February 13, 2014) was an American linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Michigan in 1961. Fillmore spent ten years at Ohio State University and a year as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University before joining Berkeley's Department of Linguistics in 1971.[1] Fillmore was influential in the areas of syntax and lexical semantics.
A three–day conference was held at UC Berkeley in celebration of his 80th birthday in 2009.[2] Fillmore received the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Association for Computational Linguistics.[3] He died in 2014.[4]
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- ^ "Featured Researcher: Charles Fillmore". ICSI Gazette. September 2010. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
- ^ "ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients". ACL wiki. ACL. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
- ^ "In Memoriam: Charles J. Fillmore (1929-2014)". Linguistic Society of America. February 14, 2014. Archived from the original on 24 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.