About the Author
Jürgen Bohnemeyer, born in 1965, is Professor of Linguistics at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and previously worked at Bielefeld University, Germany, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, the Netherlands. He received his PhD from Tilburg University in 1998. The title of his dissertation is Time Relations in Discourse: Evidence from a Comparative Approach to Yukatek Maya (Bohnemeyer 1998). In 2003, he began teaching at Buffalo and obtained tenure in 2008. Bohnemeyer specializes in semantic typology, the cross-linguistic study of semantic categorization. This emerging field is at the intersection of semantics, cultural anthropology and cognitive psychology. Bohnemeyer’s work focuses on the semantic typology of space, time, and event representation.
Some representative works include:
Bohnemeyer, Jürgen, 2002 The Grammar of Time Reference in Yukatek Maya. Munich: LINCOM.
Bohnemeyer, Jürgen, and Mary D. Swift, 2004 Event realization and default aspect. Linguistics and Philosophy 27(3): 263–296.
Bohnemeyer, Jürgen, 2007 Morpholexical Transparency and the argument structure of verbs of cutting and breaking. Cognitive Linguistics 18(2): 153–177.
Bohnemeyer, Jürgen, N. J. Enfield, James Essegbey, Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Sotaro Kita, Friederike Lüpke, and Felix K. Ameka. 2007 Principles of event segmentation in language: The case of motion events. Language 83(3): 495–532.
Bohnemeyer, Jürgen 2009 Temporal anaphora in a tenseless language. In Wolfgang Klein and Ping Li (eds.), The expression of time in language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 83–128.
Bohnemeyer, Jürgen, 2014 Aspect vs. relative tense: The case reopened. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 32(3): 917–954.
Bohnemeyer, Jürgen, Katharine Donelson, Randi E. Moore, Elena Benedicto, Alyson Eggleston, Carolyn O’Meara, Gabriela Pérez Báez, Alejandra Capistrán Garza, Nestor Hernández Green, María de Jesús S. Hernández Gómez, Samuel Herrera Castro, Enrique Palancar, Gilles Polian, and Rodrigo Romero, 2015 The contact diffusion of linguistic practices: Reference frames in Mesoamerica. Language Dynamics and Change 5(2): 169–201.
Bohnemeyer, Jürgen and Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., 2017 The Macro-Event Property and the Layered Structure of the Clause. Studies in Language 41(1): 142–197.
Bohnemeyer, Jürgen, 2020 Linguistic relativity: From Whorf to now. In Gutzmann, D., L. Matthewson, C. Meier, H. Rullmann, & T. E. Zimmermann (eds.), The Blackwell companion to semantics. London: Blackwell.
Bohnemeyer, Jürgen, In press Elicitation and documentation of tense and aspect. Language Documentation and Conservation (2022).