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A little about myself

A Californian by birth, I grew up on the San Francisco Peninsula (in the town of San Carlos, to be exact) along with my four brothers: Patrick, Michael, John, and Clay.

I have gone to several universities and colleges, the most relevant being San Francisco State University, where I (finally) got my Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish in 1987.

I currently make my home in Sant Cugat, Catalonia, and work at the University of Barcelona, where I'm an associate professor in the Department of English and German Philology.

Contact information

If, for some strange reason, you would like to contact me, you certainly may do so by:

writing me an e-mail message:

hilferty@lingua.fil.ub.es

sending me a letter via snail mail to:

Joseph Hilferty
Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya
Facultat de Filologia
Universitat de Barcelona
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585
08007 Barcelona
Spain

calling me at:

+34-93-403-5866 (from abroad)

93-403-5866 (in Spain)

faxing me at:

+34-93-317-1249 (from abroad)

93-317-1249 (in Spain)

dropping by my office during visiting hours:

fall semester: Mondays, 4:30-5:00 pm.
spring semester: Mondays, 12:30-1:00pm, 7:00-8:00pm.

Professional interests

Being a linguist, I'm of course interested in language. My main interest is the relationship between syntax and semantics, or rather, the often-subtle influence that semantics exerts on syntax.

I am currently writing my Ph.D. thesis on the notion of grammatical construction, but I'm also very interested in the relationship between language and cognition, as well as the neurobiological foundations of language. One of these days I'll actually get around to putting my Linguistics Page together, which I promise will touch upon such matters.

So far, most of my publications have dealt with cognitive linguistics. In fact, I have co-authored an introductory textbook called Introducción a la lingüística cognitiva (click HERE for a book review in Chinese!).

I am currently a regular member of the Asociación Española de Lingüística Cognitiva (I used to be the treasurer) and have been a member of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association since 1990.

Information for Students

This year (2001-2002) I'll be teaching the following classes:

Fall Semester:

English Syntax:

section T2: Mon-Wed., 5:00-6:30, Rm. 2.2 (New Building)

Spring Semester:

English Cognitive Linguistics: Mon-Wed., 5:00-6:30, Rm. 1.4 (New Building)

Contrastive Linguistics (English-Spanish-Catalan): Mon-Wed., 1:00-2:30, Rm. 113 / 8:00-9:30pm, Rm. 312

Information and materials related to these courses can be found by accessing my Students' Page . Spring-semester students please be patient.

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