Eve Sweetser

Eve Sweetser is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and an important figure in the field of cognitive linguistics. Some of her more accessible work focuses on gesture, but her other research interests include historical linguistics, semantics, metaphor and iconicity, subjectivity and viewpoint, and the Celtic language family.

Partial bibliography

 * From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure. Eve E. Sweetser. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, reprint edition, 1991. ISBN 0-521-42442-9.
 * Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar. Gilles Fauconnier & Eve Sweetser, editors. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1996. ISBN 0-226-23924-1 (paperback).