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Stefan Th. Gries

UC Santa Barbara & JLU Giessen


Stefan Th. Gries is Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara and Chair of English Linguistics (Corpus Linguistics with a focus on quantitative methods, 25%) in the Department of English at the JLU Giessen. He is a quantitative corpus linguist at the intersection of corpus linguistics, usage-based/cognitive linguistics, and a bit of computational and psycholinguistics. He has worked on topics such as blend formation, grammatical variation, the syntax-lexis interface, semantics (polysemy, antonymy, near synonymy, and legal interpretation), learner corpus and varieties research, corpus-linguistic methodology, and the development and application of statistical methods in linguistics.


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