Elizabeth Closs Traugott

ELIZABETH CLOSS TRAUGOTT

SELECTED BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

I. PUBLICATIONS
Books

2005		Laurel Brinton and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. Lexicalization and Language Change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
2003		Paul Hopper and Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Grammaticalization. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (substantially revised and enlarged second edition).
2002		Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Richard B. Dasher, Regularity in Semantic Change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
1993		Paul Hopper and Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Grammaticalization. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Japanese trans. by Sukenari Hino, Tokyo: Kyushu University Press (2003).
1980		Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Mary L. Pratt, Linguistics for Students of Literature. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc.
1972		A History of English Syntax. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.

Edited Volumes

1991 Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine, eds., Approaches to Grammaticalization, 2 Vols. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

1986 Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Alice ter Meulen, Judith Snitzer Reilly, and Charles A. Ferguson, eds., On Conditionals. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

1985 Suzanne Romaine and Elizabeth Closs Traugott, eds., Papers from the Workshop on Sociohistorical Linguistics. Folia Linguistica Historica.

1980 Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Rebecca La Brum, and Susan Shepherd, eds., Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Selected Articles

2008 "Grammaticalization, constructions and the incremental development of language: Suggestions from the development of degree modifiers in English", in Regine Eckardt, Gerhard Jäger, and Tonjes Veenstra, eds., Variation, Selection, Development--Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Change. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 219-250.

2007a Brinton, Laurel J. and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. "Lexicalization and grammaticalization all over again", in Joseph C. Salmons and Shannon Dubenion-Smith, eds., Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected Papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July - 5 August 2005. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 3-19.

2007b "Old English Left-dislocations: Their structure and information status", Folia Linguistica, 41:405-441.

2007c "The concepts of constructional mismatch and type-shifting from the perspective of grammaticalization", Cognitive Linguistics 18: 523-557.

2006a "Historical aspects of modality", in William Frawley, ed., The Expression of Modality, 107-139. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2006b "The semantic development of scalar focus modifiers", in Ans van Kemenade and Bettelou Los, eds., Handbook on the History of English, 335-359. Oxford: Blackwell.

2006c Buchstaller, Isabelle and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. "The lady was demonyak: Historical aspects of adverb ALL". English Language and Linguistics 10:345-370.

2005 "Lexicalization and grammaticalization", in A. Cruse, F. Hundsnurscher, M. Job, P. R. Lutzeier, eds., Lexikologie/-Lexicology. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, Vol. 2: 1702-1712.

2004a "Historical pragmatics", in Laurence R. Horn and Gregory Ward, eds., Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell, 538-561.

2004b "A critique of Levinson's view of Q- and M-inferences in historical pragmatics", Journal of Historical Pragmatics: 5: 1-25.

2004c "Exaptation and grammaticalization", in Minoji Akimoto, ed., Linguistic Studies Based on Corpora. Tokyo, Hituzi Syobo Publishing Co., 133-156. (PDF)

2004d "Le rôle de l'évolution des marqueurs discursifs dans une théorie de la grammaticalization", in M. M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest and Shirley Carter-Thomas, eds., Structure Informationallée et Particules Énonciatives: Essai de Typologie. Paris: L'Harmattan, 295-333. (Trans. by M. M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest of "The role of discourse markers in a theory of grammaticalization", paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, UK, August 1995 (PDF)).

2003a "From subjectification to intersubjectification", in Raymond Hickey, ed., Motives for Language Change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 124-139.

2003b "Constructions in grammaticalization", in Brian D. Joseph and Richard D. Janda, eds., A Handbook of Historical Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell, 624-647.

2003c "Semantic change", in William J. Frawley, ed., International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Vol. 2: 394-397. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

2002 "From etymology to historical pragmatics", in Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell, eds., Studying the History of the English Language: Millennial perspectives. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 19-49.

2000 Scott Schwenter and Elizabeth Closs Traugott, "Invoking scalarity: The development of in fact", Journal of Historical Pragmatics 1: 7-25.

1999a "In fiction, whose speech, whose vision?", in Rebecca S. Wheeler, ed., Language Alive in the Classroom. Westport, CN: Praeger, Greenwood Publishing Group, 167-177.

1999b "The role of pragmatics in a theory of semantic change", in Jef Verschueren, ed., Pragmatics in 1998: Selected Papers from the 6^th International Pragmatics Conference, II. Antwerp: International Pragmatics Association, 93-102.

1998 Whitney Tabor and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. "Structural scope expansion and grammaticalization", in Anna Giacalone Ramat and Paul J. Hopper, eds., The Limits of Grammaticalization. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 227-270.

1997a "Unless and but conditionals: A historical perspective", in Angeliki Athenasiadou and René Dirven, eds., Conditionals Again. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 145-167.

1997b Rachel Nordlinger and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. "Scope and the development of epistemic modality", English Language and Linguistics 1: 295-317.

1996 "Subjectification and the development of epistemic meaning: The case of promise and threaten", in Toril Swan and Olaf Jansen Westvik, eds., Modality in Germanic Languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 185-210.

1995a "Subjectification in grammaticalization", in Dieter Stein and Susan Wright, eds., Subjectivity and Subjectivisation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 37-54.

1995b Scott Schwenter and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. "The semantic and pragmatic development of substitutive complex prepositions in English", in Andreas H. Jucker, ed., Historical Pragmatics. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 243-273.

1994 "Grammaticalization and lexicalization", in R.E. Asher and J.M.Y. Simpson, eds., The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Pergamon Press, Vol. III, 1481-86. Repr. in Keith Brown and Jim Miller, eds., Concise Encyclopedia of Grammatical Categories. Oxford: Elsevier Science (1999).

1992a "Syntax", in Richard Hogg, ed., The Cambridge History of the English Language I; Old English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 168=289.

1992b "Semantics-pragmatics and textual analysis", Language and Style 22: 51-65 (1989).

1991a Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Ekkehard König. "The semantics-pragmatics of grammaticalization revisited", in Elizabeth C. Traugott and Bernd Heine, eds., Approaches to Grammaticalization. Amsterdam: Benjamins, Vol. I, 189-218.

1991b "Speech act verbs: A historical perspective", in Linda R. Waugh and Steven Rudy, eds., New Vistas in Grammar: Invariance and Variation, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 387-406.

1989a "On the rise of epistemic meanings in English: An example of subjectification in semantic change", Language 57: 33-65.

1989b "On meter in Auden's 'Streams'", in Paul Kiparsky and Gilbert Youmans, eds., Phonetics and Phonology I: Rhythm and Meter. San Diego: Academic Press, 291-304.

1988 "Pragmatic strengthening and grammaticalization", Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, 406-416.

1987 "Literacy and language change: the special case of speech act verbs", in Judith Langer, ed., Language, Literacy, and Culture: Issues of Society and Schooling. Norwood: Ablex, 11-27. Repr. in Interchange 18: 32-47 (1987).

1986a "On the origins of 'and' and 'but' connectives in English", in Studies in Language 10: 137-150.

1986b "'Conventional' and 'dead' metaphors revisited", in Wolfgang Paprotté and René Dirven, eds., The Ubiquity of Metaphor: Metaphor in Language and Thought, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 17-56.

1985a "On conditionals", in John Haiman, ed., Iconicity in Syntax. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 289-307.

1985b Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Suzanne Romaine. "Some questions for the concept of 'style' in sociohistorical linguistics", in Suzanne Romaine and Elizabeth Closs Traugott, eds., Papers from the Workshop on Sociohistorical Linguistics, Folia Linguistica Historica 6,1:7-39.

1985c John R. Rickford and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. "Symbol of powerlessness and degeneracy, or symbol of solidarity and truth? Paradoxical attitudes toward pidgins and creoles", in Sidney Greenbaum, ed., The English Language Today: Public Attitudes Toward the English Language, London: Pergamon Press, 262-261.

1982a "From propositional to textual and expressive meanings; Some semantic-pragmatic aspects of grammaticalization", in Winfred P. Lehmann and Yakov Malkiel, eds., Perspectives on Historical Linguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 245-271.

1982b Ekkehard König and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. "Divergence and apparent convergence in the development of 'Yet' and 'Still'", in M. Macaulay and R. D. Gensler, et al. eds., Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, 170-179.

1981 "The voice of varied linguistic and cultural groups in fiction: Some criteria for the use of language varieties in writing", in Marcia F. Whiteman, ed., Writing: The Nature, Development, and Teaching of Written Communication, Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum Associates, 1981, Vol. I:111-136.

1978 "On the expression of spatio-temporal relations in language", in Joseph H. Greenberg, Charles A. Ferguson, and Edith A. Moravcsik, eds., Universals of Human Language, Vol. III. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 369-400.

1977 "Natural semantax: Its role in the study of second language acquisition", in S. Pit Corder and Eddie Roulet, eds., The Notions Simplification, Interlanguages, and Pidgins and their Relation to Second Language Pedagogy, Geneva: Droz, 132-162.

1976 "Pidgins, creoles, and the origins of Vernacular Black English", in Deborah Harrison and Thomas Trabasso, eds., Black English: A Seminar, Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum Associates, 57-93.

1974 "Explorations in linguistic elaboration: Language change, language acquisition, and the genesis of spatio-temporal terms", in John M. Anderson and Charles Jones, eds., Historical Linguistics I, New York: American Elsevier, 263-314.

1973 "Le changement linguistique et sa relation a l'acquisition de la langue maternelle", Langages 32: 39-52.

1969a "Toward a Grammar of Syntactic Change", Lingua 23:1-27; German trans. in Dieter Cherubim, ed., Sprachwandel: Reader zur diachronischen Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin: de Gruyter, 1975.

1969b Elizabeth Closs Traugott and John Waterhouse. "Already and yet: A suppletive set of aspect-markers?", Journal of Linguistics 5: 287-304.

1965 Elizabeth Closs. Diachronic syntax and generative grammar. Language 41: 402-414. Revised version in a) C. Scott and J. Erickson, eds., Readings for the History of the English Language. Allyn and Bacon, 1968; b) D. Reibel and S. Schane, eds., Modern Studies in English, Prentice-Hall, 1969; c) R. Lass, ed., Readings in the History of English, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1969; d) A. R. Keiler, ed., Reader in Historical and Comparative Linguistics, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972.

Articles in press
Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Susan Pintzuk. "Coding the York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose to investigate the syntax-pragmatics interface", in Donka Minkova and Susan Fitzmaurice, eds., Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language Change. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

"The grammaticalization of NP of NP constructions". In Alexander Bergs and Gabriele Diewald, eds., Constructions and Language Chang. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

"From ideational to interpersonal: A reassessment", in Hubert Cuyckens, Kristin Davidse and Lieven Vandelanotte, eds., Subjectification, intersubjectification and grammaticalization. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

"Lectures on recent issues in grammaticalization", in Working Papers of the Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, translated by Chaofen Sun.

"Constructions, emergent constructions, and the notion of 'newness'". Paper presented at HDLS, Albuquerque, NM, November. German translation to appear as "Grammatikalisierung und emergente Konstruktionen" in Stefanowitsch, Anatol, and Kerstin Fischer, eds., Konstruktionsgrammatik und grammatische Konstruktionen. Tuebingen: Stauffenburg.

"'All that he endeavoured to prove was…': On the emergence of grammatical constructions in dialogic contexts", in Ruth Kempson and Robin Cooper, eds. Language Change and Evolution.

"Dialogic motivations for syntactic change", in William Kretschmar, Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm, and Robert A. Cloutier, eds., Variation and Change in English Grammar and Lexicon. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

The state of English language studies: A linguistic Perspective, In Marianne Thormählen, ed. English Now: Papers from the 20th IAUPE Conference. Lund: Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.

II. ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY

Degrees:

2007 Honorary Doctorate, University of Uppsala

1964 Ph.D. in English Language, University of California, Berkeley

1960 B.A. in English Language and Literature, Oxford University

Main Teaching Positions:

1970-2003 Associate Professor, then Professor of Linguistics and English, Stanford University

1964-70 Assistant Professor, Department of English, UC Berkeley (with leaves for visiting appointments at the Department of Language and Linguistics, University College, Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania and Department of Language, University of York, England)

Grants, fellowships:

2000 - AAAS Fellow

1983-84 Simon Guggenheim Fellow

1983-84 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

Membership in Professional Associations:
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
International Society for Historical Linguistics (ISHL)
International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE)
International Pragmatics Association (IPra)
Linguistic Association of Great Britain (LAGB)
Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
Modern Language Association (MLA)

Selected Academic Service:

2008-11 President, International Society for the Linguistics of English.

1999- Linguistics Delegate to Oxford University Press, USA.

1999- Series Editor with Bernd Kortmann (Freiburg University) of Topics in English Linguistics, Mouton de Gruyter

1999- Member of Consulting Board, International Pragmatics Association,

1994-98 Secretary-Treasurer, Linguistic Society of America

1987 President, Linguistic Society of America

1982 Member of NEH advisory committee

1979-80 President, International Society for Historical Linguistics; hosted the Fourth ICHL at Stanford University

Selected Administrative Service:
University service at Stanford:

2000-01 Member, Advisory Board

2000 Chair, Writing Programs Review Committee

1993-95 AAUP President, Stanford Chapter

1985-91 Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies, Stanford University; Acting Provost July-August 1987

1980-83, 1984-85, 1992-94, 1998-2000 Elected Member of the Faculty Senate

1980-85 Chair, Department of Linguistics

Other Administrative Service:

2007-8 Research Assessment Exercise, Higher Education Funding Council for England, Panel M

1999 Member, electoral board for selection of Chair of Linguistics, Oxford University

1995-96, 99-01 Research Assessment Exercise, Higher Education Funding Council for England, Linguistics Panel

1990-92 Chair, TOEFL Policy Board

1990 Member of AAU/AGS Taskforce on Institutional Policies to Improve Doctoral Education

1989 Chair of Council of Graduate Schools Task Force to rewrite The Doctor of Philosophy

1988-93 Member of GRE Board

1987 Member of Middle States Accreditation Team, CUNY Graduate School

1965-66 Member of the joint Institute/Ministry of Education language and literature panel, Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania (for planning English and French language curricula in Tanzanian schools)

April 2008

1991		Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine, eds., Approaches to Grammaticalization, 2 Vols. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
1986		Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Alice ter Meulen, Judith Snitzer Reilly, and Charles A. Ferguson, eds., On Conditionals. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
1985		Suzanne Romaine and Elizabeth Closs Traugott, eds., Papers from the Workshop on Sociohistorical Linguistics. Folia Linguistica Historica.
1980		Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Rebecca La Brum, and Susan Shepherd, eds., Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

2008		"Grammaticalization, constructions and the incremental development of language: Suggestions from the development of degree modifiers in English", in Regine Eckardt, Gerhard Jäger, and Tonjes Veenstra, eds., Variation, Selection, Development--Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Change. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 219-250.
2007a		Brinton, Laurel J. and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. "Lexicalization and grammaticalization all over again", in Joseph C. Salmons and Shannon Dubenion-Smith, eds., Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected Papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July - 5 August 2005. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 3-19.
2007b		"Old English Left-dislocations: Their structure and information status", Folia Linguistica, 41:405-441.
2007c		"The concepts of constructional mismatch and type-shifting from the perspective of grammaticalization", Cognitive Linguistics 18: 523-557.
2006a		"Historical aspects of modality", in William Frawley, ed., The Expression of Modality, 107-139. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
2006b		"The semantic development of scalar focus modifiers", in Ans van Kemenade and Bettelou Los, eds., Handbook on the History of English, 335-359. Oxford: Blackwell.
2006c		Buchstaller, Isabelle and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. "The lady was demonyak: Historical aspects of adverb ALL". English Language and Linguistics 10:345-370.
2005		"Lexicalization and grammaticalization", in A. Cruse, F. Hundsnurscher, M. Job, P. R. Lutzeier, eds., Lexikologie/-Lexicology. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, Vol. 2: 1702-1712.
2004a		"Historical pragmatics", in Laurence R. Horn and Gregory Ward, eds., Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell, 538-561.
2004b		"A critique of Levinson's view of Q- and M-inferences in historical pragmatics", Journal of Historical Pragmatics: 5: 1-25.
2004c		"Exaptation and grammaticalization", in Minoji Akimoto, ed., Linguistic Studies Based on Corpora. Tokyo, Hituzi Syobo Publishing Co., 133-156. (PDF)
2004d		"Le rôle de l'évolution des marqueurs discursifs dans une théorie de la grammaticalization", in M. M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest and Shirley Carter-Thomas, eds., Structure Informationallée et Particules Énonciatives: Essai de Typologie. Paris: L'Harmattan, 295-333. (Trans. by M. M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest of "The role of discourse markers in a theory of grammaticalization", paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, UK, August 1995 (PDF)).
2003a		"From subjectification to intersubjectification", in Raymond Hickey, ed., Motives for Language Change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 124-139.
2003b		"Constructions in grammaticalization", in Brian D. Joseph and Richard D. Janda, eds., A Handbook of Historical Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell, 624-647.
2003c		"Semantic change", in William J. Frawley, ed., International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Vol. 2: 394-397. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
2002		"From etymology to historical pragmatics", in Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell, eds., Studying the History of the English Language: Millennial perspectives. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 19-49.
2000		Scott Schwenter and Elizabeth Closs Traugott, "Invoking scalarity: The development of in fact", Journal of Historical Pragmatics 1: 7-25.
1999a		"In fiction, whose speech, whose vision?", in Rebecca S. Wheeler, ed., Language Alive in the Classroom. Westport, CN: Praeger, Greenwood Publishing Group, 167-177.
1999b		"The role of pragmatics in a theory of semantic change", in Jef Verschueren, ed., Pragmatics in 1998: Selected Papers from the 6^th International Pragmatics Conference, II. Antwerp: International Pragmatics Association, 93-102.
1998		Whitney Tabor and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. "Structural scope expansion and grammaticalization", in Anna Giacalone Ramat and Paul J. Hopper, eds., The Limits of Grammaticalization. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 227-270.
1997a		"Unless and but conditionals: A historical perspective", in Angeliki Athenasiadou and René Dirven, eds., Conditionals Again. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 145-167.
1997b		Rachel Nordlinger and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. "Scope and the development of epistemic modality", English Language and Linguistics 1: 295-317.
1996		"Subjectification and the development of epistemic meaning: The case of promise and threaten", in Toril Swan and Olaf Jansen Westvik, eds., Modality in Germanic Languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 185-210.
1995a		"Subjectification in grammaticalization", in Dieter Stein and Susan Wright, eds., Subjectivity and Subjectivisation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 37-54.
1995b		Scott Schwenter and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. "The semantic and pragmatic development of substitutive complex prepositions in English", in Andreas H. Jucker, ed., Historical Pragmatics. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 243-273.
1994		"Grammaticalization and lexicalization", in R.E. Asher and J.M.Y. Simpson, eds., The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Pergamon Press, Vol. III, 1481-86. Repr. in Keith Brown and Jim Miller, eds., Concise Encyclopedia of Grammatical Categories. Oxford: Elsevier Science (1999).
1992a		"Syntax", in Richard Hogg, ed., The Cambridge History of the English Language I; Old English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 168=289.
1992b		"Semantics-pragmatics and textual analysis", Language and Style 22: 51-65 (1989).
1991a		Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Ekkehard König. "The semantics-pragmatics of grammaticalization revisited", in Elizabeth C. Traugott and Bernd Heine, eds., Approaches to Grammaticalization. Amsterdam: Benjamins, Vol. I, 189-218.
1991b		"Speech act verbs: A historical perspective", in Linda R. Waugh and Steven Rudy, eds., New Vistas in Grammar: Invariance and Variation, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 387-406.
1989a		"On the rise of epistemic meanings in English: An example of subjectification in semantic change", Language 57: 33-65.
1989b		"On meter in Auden's 'Streams'", in Paul Kiparsky and Gilbert Youmans, eds., Phonetics and Phonology I: Rhythm and Meter. San Diego: Academic Press, 291-304.
1988		"Pragmatic strengthening and grammaticalization", Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, 406-416.
1987		"Literacy and language change: the special case of speech act verbs", in Judith Langer, ed., Language, Literacy, and Culture: Issues of Society and Schooling. Norwood: Ablex, 11-27. Repr. in Interchange 18: 32-47 (1987).
1986a		"On the origins of 'and' and 'but' connectives in English", in Studies in Language 10: 137-150.
1986b		"'Conventional' and 'dead' metaphors revisited", in Wolfgang Paprotté and René Dirven, eds., The Ubiquity of Metaphor: Metaphor in Language and Thought, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 17-56.
1985a		"On conditionals", in John Haiman, ed., Iconicity in Syntax. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 289-307.
1985b		Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Suzanne Romaine. "Some questions for the concept of 'style' in sociohistorical linguistics", in Suzanne Romaine and Elizabeth Closs Traugott, eds., Papers from the Workshop on Sociohistorical Linguistics, Folia Linguistica Historica 6,1:7-39.
1985c		John R. Rickford and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. "Symbol of powerlessness and degeneracy, or symbol of solidarity and truth? Paradoxical attitudes toward pidgins and creoles", in Sidney Greenbaum, ed., The English Language Today: Public Attitudes Toward the English Language, London: Pergamon Press, 262-261.
1982a		"From propositional to textual and expressive meanings; Some semantic-pragmatic aspects of grammaticalization", in Winfred P. Lehmann and Yakov Malkiel, eds., Perspectives on Historical Linguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 245-271.
1982b		Ekkehard König and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. "Divergence and apparent convergence in the development of 'Yet' and 'Still'", in M. Macaulay and R. D. Gensler, et al. eds., Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, 170-179.
1981		"The voice of varied linguistic and cultural groups in fiction: Some criteria for the use of language varieties in writing", in Marcia F. Whiteman, ed., Writing: The Nature, Development, and Teaching of Written Communication, Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum Associates, 1981, Vol. I:111-136.
1978		"On the expression of spatio-temporal relations in language", in Joseph H. Greenberg, Charles A. Ferguson, and Edith A. Moravcsik, eds., Universals of Human Language, Vol. III. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 369-400.
1977		"Natural semantax: Its role in the study of second language acquisition", in S. Pit Corder and Eddie Roulet, eds., The Notions Simplification, Interlanguages, and Pidgins and their Relation to Second Language Pedagogy, Geneva: Droz, 132-162.
1976		"Pidgins, creoles, and the origins of Vernacular Black English", in Deborah Harrison and Thomas Trabasso, eds., Black English: A Seminar, Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum Associates, 57-93.
1974		"Explorations in linguistic elaboration: Language change, language acquisition, and the genesis of spatio-temporal terms", in John M. Anderson and Charles Jones, eds., Historical Linguistics I, New York: American Elsevier, 263-314.
1973		"Le changement linguistique et sa relation a l'acquisition de la langue maternelle", Langages 32: 39-52.
1969a		"Toward a Grammar of Syntactic Change", Lingua 23:1-27; German trans. in Dieter Cherubim, ed., Sprachwandel: Reader zur diachronischen Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin: de Gruyter, 1975.
1969b		Elizabeth Closs Traugott and John Waterhouse. "Already and yet: A suppletive set of aspect-markers?", Journal of Linguistics 5: 287-304.
1965		Elizabeth Closs. Diachronic syntax and generative grammar. Language 41: 402-414. Revised version in a) C. Scott and J. Erickson, eds., Readings for the History of the English Language. Allyn and Bacon, 1968; b) D. Reibel and S. Schane, eds., Modern Studies in English, Prentice-Hall, 1969; c) R. Lass, ed., Readings in the History of English, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1969; d) A. R. Keiler, ed., Reader in Historical and Comparative Linguistics, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972.

2007		Honorary Doctorate, University of Uppsala
1964		Ph.D. in English Language, University of California, Berkeley
1960		B.A. in English Language and Literature, Oxford University

1970-2003		Associate Professor, then Professor of Linguistics and English, Stanford University
1964-70		Assistant Professor, Department of English, UC Berkeley (with leaves for visiting appointments at the Department of Language and Linguistics, University College, Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania and Department of Language, University of York, England)

2000 -		AAAS Fellow
1983-84		Simon Guggenheim Fellow
1983-84		Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

2008-11		President, International Society for the Linguistics of English.
1999-		Linguistics Delegate to Oxford University Press, USA.
1999-		Series Editor with Bernd Kortmann (Freiburg University) of Topics in English Linguistics, Mouton de Gruyter
1999-		Member of Consulting Board, International Pragmatics Association,
1994-98		Secretary-Treasurer, Linguistic Society of America
1987		President, Linguistic Society of America
1982		Member of NEH advisory committee
1979-80		President, International Society for Historical Linguistics; hosted the Fourth ICHL at Stanford University

2000-01		Member, Advisory Board
2000		Chair, Writing Programs Review Committee
1993-95		AAUP President, Stanford Chapter
1985-91		Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies, Stanford University; Acting Provost July-August 1987
1980-83,		1984-85, 1992-94, 1998-2000 Elected Member of the Faculty Senate
1980-85		Chair, Department of Linguistics

2007-8		Research Assessment Exercise, Higher Education Funding Council for England, Panel M
1999		Member, electoral board for selection of Chair of Linguistics, Oxford University
1995-96, 99-01		Research Assessment Exercise, Higher Education Funding Council for England, Linguistics Panel
1990-92		Chair, TOEFL Policy Board
1990		Member of AAU/AGS Taskforce on Institutional Policies to Improve Doctoral Education
1989		Chair of Council of Graduate Schools Task Force to rewrite The Doctor of Philosophy
1988-93		Member of GRE Board
1987		Member of Middle States Accreditation Team, CUNY Graduate School
1965-66		Member of the joint Institute/Ministry of Education language and literature panel, Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania (for planning English and French language curricula in Tanzanian schools)