Lynne Murphy

Lynne Murphy is a professor of linguistics at the University of Sussex.[1] She runs the blog Separated by a Common Language[2] under the username Lynneguist, and has written five books. She received a grant from the NEH Public Scholars Program[3] for her most recent book, The Prodigal Tongue.

Lynne Murphy
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-disciplineLexicology
InstitutionsUniversity of Sussex

Studies

Murphy has a B.A. in Linguistics and Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, as well as an A.M. and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[4]

Career

Murphy taught at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and Baylor University in Texas. In 2000, she moved to England and began teaching at the University of Sussex. In 2012, she gave a TEDx talk at the University of Sussex.[5] She has written 5 books: Semantic Relations and the Lexicon,[6] Key Terms in Semantics,[7] Lexical Meaning,[8] Antonyms in English,[9] and The Prodigal Tongue.[1][2][10][11] She received a grant for The Prodigal Tongue from the National Endowment for the Humanities.[3] She authors the blog Separated by a Common Language. She spoke at the Boring Conference in 2019.[12]

Selected publications

Books

Lynne Murphy. 2018. The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-hate Relationship Between American and British English. Penguin.

M. Lynne Murphy. 2010. Lexical meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

M. Lynne Murphy. 2003. Semantic relations and the lexicon: antonymy, synonymy and other paradigms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Journal articles

Steven Jones and M. Lynne Murphy. 2005. Using corpora to investigate antonym acquisition International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10 (3), 401-422.

M. Lynne Murphy and Steven Jones, 2008. Antonyms in children's and child-directed speech. First Language 28 (4), 403-430.

Steven Jones, Carita Paradis, M Lynne Murphy, and Caroline Willners. 2007. Googling for ‘opposites’: A Web-based study of antonym canonicity. Corpora 2 (2), 129-154.

References
  1. "The Prodigal Tongue by Lynne Murphy — the language of Shakespeare". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2020-01-11.
  2. "Opinion: U.S. And U.K. Remain United, Not Divided, By Their Common Language". NPR.org. Retrieved 2020-01-11.
  3. "Lynne Murphy". National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
  4. "M.Lynne Murphy : University of Sussex". www.sussex.ac.uk.
  5. "TEDxSussexUniversity - Lynne Murphy - American and British Politeness" – via www.youtube.com.
  6. "Semantic relations and lexicon antonymy synonymy and other paradigms | Semantics and pragmatics". Cambridge University Press.
  7. "Key Terms in Semantics". Bloomsbury Publishing.
  8. "Lexical meaning | Semantics and pragmatics". Cambridge University Press.
  9. "Antonyms english construals constructions and canonicity | Semantics and pragmatics". Cambridge University Press.
  10. Lyall, Sarah (15 June 2018). "You Say 'To-may-to,' I Say 'To-mah-to'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-01-11 – via NYTimes.com.
  11. "Lynne Murphy: The Prodigal Tongue review - two nations divided by a common language?". theartsdesk.com. Retrieved 2020-01-11.
  12. "BORING VI – SPEAKERS". May 4, 2016.
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