Robin Cooper (linguist)

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Robin Hayes Cooper, FBA (born 1947) is a British linguist. He was professor of computational linguistics at the University of Gothenburg from 1995 to 2012.[1] He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1993.[2] He was the subject of a festschrift: Staffan Larsson and Lars Borin (eds), From Quantification to Conversation: Festschrift for Robin Cooper on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday (London: College Publications, 2012).

Publications[edit]

  • Quantification and Syntactic Theory (London: Springer, 1983)
  • (editor, with Ruth Kempson) Language in Flux: Dialogue Coordination, Language Variation, Change and Evolution (London: College Publications, 2008)
  • From Perception to Communication: A Theory of Types of Action and Meaning (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023).

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Cooper, Prof. Robin Hayes", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2023). Retrieved 29 January 2024.
  2. ^ "Professor Robin Cooper FBA", British Academy. Retrieved 29 January 2024.