Charles J. Fillmore | |
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![]() Fillmore in 2012 | |
Born | |
Died | February 13, 2014 San Francisco, California, US | (aged 84)
Alma mater | University of Minnesota (B.A, Linguistics)[1] University of Michigan (Ph.D., 1961) |
Spouse | Lily Wong Fillmore |
Awards | 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Computational Linguistics |
Academic career | |
Discipline | Linguist |
Institutions | Ohio State University |
Main interests | Cognitive linguistics, case grammar, frame semantics, FrameNet |
Notable students | Laura Michaelis, Len Talmy, Eve Sweetser, Miriam R. L. Petruck |
Website | linguistics |
Charles J. Fillmore (August 9, 1929 – February 13, 2014) was an American linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Michigan in 1961. Fillmore spent ten years at Ohio State University and a year as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University before joining Berkeley's Department of Linguistics in 1971.[1] Fillmore was extremely influential in the areas of syntax and lexical semantics.
A three–day conference was held at UC Berkeley in celebration of his 80th birthday in 2009.[2] Fillmore received the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Association for Computational Linguistics.[3] He died in 2014.[4]
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