Stefan Th. Gries
| Stefan Th. Gries | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1970 Hamburg, West Germany |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics |
| Institutions | University of California, Santa Barbara, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, University of Leipzig, Lancaster University, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Southern Denmark, University of Hamburg |
Stefan Th. Gries (born 1970) is (full) professor of linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Honorary Liebig-Professor of the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen (since September 2011), He is a Visiting Chair (2013–2017) of the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University and is the Leibniz Professor (spring 2017) at the Research Academy Leipzig of the Leipzig University.,
Gries earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Hamburg, Germany, in 1998 and 2000. He was at the Department of Business Communication and Information Science of the University of Southern Denmark at Sønderborg (1998–2005), first as a lecturer, then as assistant professor and tenured associate professor; during that time, he also taught English linguistics part-time at the Department of British and American Studies of the University of Hamburg. In 2005, he spent 10 months as a visiting scholar in the Psychology Department of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, before he accepted a position at UCSB, starting November 1, 2005. Gries was a visiting professor at the 2007, 2011, 2013, and 2015 LSA Linguistic Institutes at Stanford University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the University of Chicago.
Methodologically, Gries is a quantitative corpus linguist at the intersection of corpus linguistics,cognitive linguistics, and computational linguistics, who uses a variety of different statistical methods to investigate linguistic topics such as morphophonology (the formation of morphological blends), syntax (syntactic alternations), the syntax-lexis interface (collostructional analysis), and semantics (polysemy, antonymy, and near synonymy in English and Russian) and corpus-linguistic methodology (corpus homogeneity and comparisons, association and dispersion measures, n-gram identification and exploration, and other quantitative methods), as well as first and second/foreign language acquisition. Occasionally and mainly collaboratively, he also uses experimental methods (acceptability judgments, sentence completion, priming, self-paced reading times, and sorting tasks). Much of his recent work involves the open source software R.
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