Eve Sweetser, Date of Birth
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Professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley
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About Eve Sweetser
- Eve Sweetser is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
- She received her Ph.D.
- in Linguistics from UC Berkeley in 1984, and has been a member of the Berkeley faculty since that time.
- She has served as Director of Berkeley's undergraduate Cognitive Science Program and is currently Director of the Celtic Studies Program.Sweetser has published articles on topics including modality, polysemy, metaphor, conditional constructions, grammatical meaning, performativity, gesture, and Medieval Welsh poetics.
- Some of her more accessible work focuses on gesture, but her other research interests include historical linguistics, semantics, metaphor and iconicity, subjectivity and viewpoint, and the Celtic language family.
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