Nick Ellis
University of Michigan
Nick Ellis is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Professor of Linguistics, and Research Scientist in the English Language Institute at the University of Michigan. His research interests include second language acquisition, cognition, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, and emergentism and complex adaptive systems. Books on these themes include: Implicit and Explicit Learning of Language (Academic, 1994), Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (Routledge, 2008, with Peter Robinson), Language as a Complex Adaptive System (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, with Diane Larsen- Freeman), and Language Usage, Acquisition, and Processing: Cognitive and Corpus Investigations of Construction Grammar (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016 with Ute Römer & Matt Brook O’Donnell). He received the Distinguished Scholarship and Service Award from the American Association of Applied Linguistics in 2019. He served as General Editor of Language Learning from 2006 to 2020. https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/nickellis/