Current and former positions

Director, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (1994-), Managing Director (1998-2001, 2007-2008)

Professor of Comparative Linguistics at the Radboud University Nijmegen (1995-)

Lecturer, then Reader, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Linguistics (1975-1994)

Head, Max Planck Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Berlin (1989-1991) and Nijmegen (1991-1998)

Research fellow, Australian National University (1982-1983)

Visiting Associate Professor, Stanford, Linguistics Department & CSLI (1987-1988)

Director of Studies, Archeology & Anthropology, Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1978-1980)


Education, Scholarships and Research Fellowships

University of Cambridge, 1967-1970: BA in Social Anthropology, First Class Honours

University of California, Berkeley, Special Career Fellow 1970-1975, MA Linguistic Anthropology 1973

LSA Fellowship, Fellowship from Mathematical and Social Sciences Board, 1973

Doctorate in Linguistic Anthropology, 1977 ("Social Deixis in a Tamil Village")

Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, 1974, Visiting Scholar


Honours, etc.

Senior Scholar, King's College, Cambridge, 1970; Fulbright Scholarship, 1970

Member of High Table, King’s College, Cambridge, 1975-present

Professor, Linguistic Society of America Linguistics Institute, Stanford University, 1987

Fellow of the British Academy, 1988

The Nijmegen Lectures, 1988

Stirling Prize, American Anthropology Association, 1992

The Stern Lectures, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1998

Professor, Linguistic Society of America Linguistics Institute, U.C. Santa Barbara, 2001

Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Fellow-Elect, 2001

Member of the Academia Europaea, 2003-present

Hale Professor, Linguistic Society of America, 2009


Steering Committees

Faculty Board of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge (1982-1987)

Appointments Committees for University of Cambridge, Radboud University

Foundation Committees, Max Planck Institutes for Evolutionary Anthropology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Demography, History of Science

Scientific Council of the Fyssen Foundation, Paris (1996-2001)

Executive Board (from 2000), International Pragmatics Association

Scientific Advisory Committee, Project on Typological Database System, RU Utrecht

Scientific Advisory Board, Gutenberg Forschungskolleg, Mainz (from 2008)

International Board, "Languages of Emotion" Cluster of Excellence, Freie Universität Berlin from 2009)


Editorial Boards

Sole Editor, Cambridge University Press series, Language, Culture & Cognition

Co-Editor, Mouton de Gruyter Series, Language and Cognitive Categories

Editorial Board, Language Typology

Editorial Board, Current Psychology Letters: Behaviour, Brain & Cognition

Editorial Board, International Pragmatics Association Working Paper Series

Consulting Board of Editors, Cognitive Linguistics

Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of Discourse Studies

Consultation Board, International Pragmatics Association

Editorial Board, Lenguage en Contexto, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Honorary Board, Discourse Studies

Editorial Board, Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface

Editorial Board, Spatial Cognition & Computation

Associated Editor Frontiers

Editorial Board, Brill, Empirical Foundations of Theoretical Pragmatics (EFTP)

Honorary Board, Journal of Pragmatics


Previously:

Editorial Board, Cambridge University Press series, Socio-cultural Foundations of Language (until 1998)

Editorial Board, Linguistics (until 1992)

Editorial Board, Journal of Semantics (until 1998)

Editorial Board, Anthropological Linguistics, Oxford University Press (until 2000)

Editorial Board, Cognitive Science, Journal of the Cognitive Science Society

Editorial Board, Language and Cognitive Processes


Fieldwork

Archaeological fieldwork: Greece, 1968; Libya, 1967

Anthropological and Linguistic fieldwork:

(a) South Wales, 1969; Kumaon, India, 1970; Trobriand Islands, 1992

(b) Mayan Indians: Tenejapa, Chiapas, Mexico, Summer 1973, summers 1980, 1990, 1991, winter 1992-1993, summers 1993, 1994, 1995

(c) Dravidian Indians: Madras, Tamilnadu, S. India 1972; Coimbatore District, Tamilnadu, 1974-1975, 1981; Tribal peoples, Nilgiri Hills, 1992

(d) Australian Aboriginals: Hopevale Mission, Cape York, Queensland, summer 1982; summer/fall 1992

(e) Rossel Island (Papua New Guinea): Summer 1995, Spring 1996, Fall 1996, Spring 1997, Fall 1997, Summers 1998, 1999, Winter 2000/2001, Summers 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009