Curriculum Vitae, Paul Kay

 

International Computer Science Institute

1947 Center Street

Berkeley, CA 94704 USA

Department of Linguistics

University of California

Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

paulkay@berkeley.edu

www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~kay

 

June 2007

 

 

Born:  1934, New York City

 

Married: 1956, to Patricia Ann Boehm

 

Children: two, born 1961 and 1963

 

Military Service: United States Army, 1958-59

 

Degrees:  Tulane University, B.A., Economics, Phi Beta Kappa, 1955

                  Harvard University, Ph.D., Social Anthropology, 1963

 

Major positions held since receipt of Ph.D.

 

1963-64 Postdoctoral Fellow (Social Science Research Council), Stanford University

 

1964-65 Assistant Professor of Political Science, M.I.T.

 

1965-66 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California

 

1966-69 Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California at    Berkeley

 

1967-74 Principal Investigator, Language Behavior Research Laboratory, U.C.B.

 

1970-82 Professor of Anthropology, U.C.B.

 

1982-1995 Professor of Linguistics, U.C.B

 

1972-73 Visiting Colleague (Guggenheim Fellow), Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaii

 

1974-79 Co-Principal Investigator, Language Behavior Research Laboratory, U.C.B.

 

1975-78 Chairman, Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects, U.C.B.

 

1982 (Spring) Professor Visitante (Fullbright Lecturer), Departamento de LingŸ’stica, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, S‹o Paolo, Brazil

 

1981-85 Director, Institute of Cognitive Studies (formerly, Institute of Human Learning), U.C.B.

 

1986-91 Chairman, Department of Linguistics, U.C.B.

 

1987-89 President, Society for Linguistic Anthropology

 

1995- Professor in the Graduate School, Professor Emeritus, U.C.B.

 

2001- Senior Research Scientist, International Computer Science Institute

 

 

Organizations:

 

National Academy of Sciences

Linguistic Society of America

Society for Linguistic Anthropology

American Anthropological Association

 

 

Publications:

 

1963a  Urbanization in the Tahitian household.  In A. Spoehr (ed.) Pacific Port Cities and Towns.  Honolulu.  Bishop.  63-75.

 

1963b  Tahitian fosterage and the form of ethnographic models.  American Anthropologist  65: 1027-44.

 

1963c  Aspects of social structure in an urban Tahitian neighborhood.  Journal of the Polynesian Society  72: 325-71.

 

1964a  A Guttman scale model of Tahitian consumer behavior.  Southwestern  Journal of Anthropology  20: 160-67.

 

1964b  (William Geoghegan and __) More structure and statistics: a critique of  C. Ackerman's analysis of the Purum.  American Anthropologist  86: 1351-56.

 

1965a  A generalization of the cross-parallel distinction.  American Anthropologist 67: 30-43.

 

1965b  of Maori Families (by Jane Ritchie.)  American Anthropologist 67: 1942-43.

 

1966a  Comment on B.N. Colby's 'Ethnographic Semantics.'  Current Anthropology 7: 20-23.  Reprinted with addendum in S.A. Tyler (ed.) Cognitive Anthropology. 1969.  New York. Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

 

1966b  Ethnography and theory of culture.  Bucknell Review 14: 106-114.  Reissued as Bobbs-Merrill Social Science Reprint, with addendum. Reprinted in H. Siverts (ed.) Drinking Patterns in Highland Chiapas.  Bergen. Universitetsfiraget. 1972.

 

1967  On the multiplicity of cross/parallel distinctions.  American Anthropologist  69: 83-85.

 

1968  Correctional notes on cross/parallel.  American Anthropologist 70: 106-7.

 

1968b  (__ and A.K. Romney) On simple semantic spaces and semantic categories.  Working Paper Number 2.  Language Behavior Research Laboratory. U.C. Berkeley.

 

1968c  Axiomatic theory of taxonomic structure.  Working Paper Number 18. Language Behavior Research Laboratory. Berkeley.

 

1969a  (Brent Berlin and __)  Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution. Berkeley. University of California Press.

 

1969b  Some mathematical problems arising in linguistics and anthropology. Advanced Research Seminar in Scaling and Measurement.  Newport Beach, California. ms. 18 pp.

 

1970  Theoretical implications of ethnographic semantics.  Current Directions in Anthropology (= Bulletin of the American Anthropological Association. Number 3, Part 2.)

 

1971a  Explorations in Mathematical Anthropology. (__ ed.) Cambridge, Mass. M.I.T. Press.

 

1971b  Taxonomy and semantic contrast. Language 217: 866-87.

 

1972  (__ and Duane Metzger) On Ethnographic Method.  In H. Siverts (ed.) Drinking Patterns in Highland Chiapas.  Bergen: Universitetsforaget. 

 

1973  On the form of dictionary entries: English kinship semantics.  In. R. Shuy and C.-J. N. Bailey (eds.) Toward Tomorrow's Linguistics.  Georgetown. Georgetown University Press.

 

1974a  Review of Tahitians (by R.I. Levy).  Mankind 9: 335-36.

 

 1974b  (__ and Gillian Sankoff) A language-universals approach to pidgins and creoles.  In D. De Camp and I. Hancock (eds.) Pidgins and Creoles.  Georgetown.  Georgetown University Press.

 

 1975a  The generative analysis of kinship semantics:  a reanalysis of the Seneca data.  Foundations of Language 13: 201-14,

 

 1975b  A model-theoretic approach to folk taxonomy.  Social Science Information 14: 151-66.

 

1975c  Synchronic variability and diachronic change in basic color terms. Language in Society 4: 257-70.  Reprinted in Baugh, John and Joel Sherzer (eds.) Language in Use.  Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice Hall. 1984.

 

1975d  (__ and C. K. McDaniel) Color categories as fuzzy sets.  Working Paper Number 44.  Language Behavior Research Laboratory.  Berkeley.

 

1976    Discussion of papers by Paul Kiparsky and Roger Wescott.  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences  280: 117-119.

 

1977a  Language evolution and speech style.  In B. Blount and M. Sanches (eds.) Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Use.  New York. Academic.

 

1977b  Constants and variable of English kinship semantics.  In R.W. Fasold and R.W. Shuy (eds.) Studies in Language Variation.  Georgetown. Georgetown University Press.

 

1977c  Review of Semantic Fields and Lexical Structure (by Adrienne Lehrer). Language  53: 469-74.

 

1977d  The myth of nonacademic employment: observations on the growth of an idiology.  Anthropology Newsletter 18: 11-12.  Reprinted in American Sociologist,  vol. 13, no 4 (1978).

 

1978a  Tahitian words for race and class.  Journal de la SociŽtŽ des OcŽanistes (Paris) 39: 81-93.

 

1978b  Variable rules, community grammar and linguistic change.  In Linguistic Variation. D. Sankoff (ed.). New York. Academic.

 

1978c (__ and Karl Zimmer) On the semantics of compounds and genitives in  English.  Sixth California Linguistics Association Conference Proceedings. R. Underhill (ed.). San Diego, California. Campanile.  Reprinted in S.L  Tsohatzidis (ed.) Belief Systems in Language: Studies on Linguistic Prototypes. London. Routledge (1989).

 

1978d  (__ and C. K. McDaniel)  The linguistic significance of the meanings of basic color terms. Language 54: 610-46.

 

1978e  Rejoinder to critiques of The myth of academic employment (item 31).  American Sociologist. vol. 14, no. 2.

 

1978f   Rejoinder to critiques of The myth of academic employment (item 31). Anthropology Newsletter 19: 7.

 

1978g  Testimony to the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research.  Report and Recommendations:  Insititutional Review Boards.  National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects. DHEW Publications No. (05)78-0009. (Summary of prepared testimony).

 

1979a  (__ and C. K. McDaniel)  On the logic of variable rules.  Language in Society 8: 151-87.

 

1979b  Review of Gossip, Reputation and Knowledge in Zinacantan (by J. B. Haviland).  American Anthropologist 81: 402-404.

 

1980a  On the syntax and semantics of early questions.  Linguistic Inquiry  11: 426-29.

 

1980b  Color perception and the meanings of color terms.  Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.  University of California.San Diego.

 

 1981a (Linda Coleman and __)  Prototype semantics: the English word lie.  Language 57: 26-44.

 

 1981b (__ and C.K. McDaniel)  On the meaning of variable rules. Language in Society 10: 251-58.

 

1981c Foreword to The Folk Classification of Ceramics: A Study of Cognitive Prototypes (by Willet M. Kempton).  New York. Academic.

 

1983a  Linguistic competence and folk theories of language: two English hedges. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics  Society. 128-37.  Reprinted in D. Holland and N. Quinn (eds.) Cultural  Models of Language and Thought.  Cambridge. Cambridge University Press (1987).

 

1983b  Comments prepared for the UNYTIP  conference at Gummersbach.  In  H. Seiler and B. Brettschneider (eds.) Language Invariants and Mental  Operations.  TŸbingen.  Gunter Narr Verlag.  pp. 102-106.

 

1983c  Report of Group IV: mental operations.  In H. Seiler and B. Brettschneider (eds.) Language Invariants and Mental Operations.  TŸbingen.  Gunter Narr Verlag.  pp. 220-22.

 

1983d  Four brief book notes (Authors: Gazdar, Giv—n, Heny, Schnelle). American Anthropologist 85: 487.

 

1984a  (__ and W.M. Kempton) What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?  American Anthropologist 86: 65-79.

 

1984b  The kinda/sorta  construction.  Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 157-71.

 

1987a  Three properties of the ideal reader.  Cognitive and Linguisitic Analyses of Test Performance.  R.O. Freedle and R.P. Dur‡n (eds.) Norwood, New  Jersey. Ablex. 208-224.

 

1987b  A problem in semantics and pragmatics: pragmatic informativeness and  scalar semantics.  Mathematical Social Science 14: 196-7.

 

1988 (C.J. Fillmore, __ and M.C. O'Connor) Regularity and idiomaticity in grammtical constructions: the case of let alone.  Language 64: 501-38.

 

1989 Contextual operators: respective, respectively  and vice versa.  Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society. 15: 181-93. 

 

1990 EVEN.  Linguistics and Philosophy. 13: 59-111.

 

1991a (__ Brent Berlin, and William Merrifield) Biocultural Implications of Systems of Color Naming.  Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 1: 12-25.

 

1991b Constructional modus tollens and level of conventionality. Papers from the 27th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. 107-124.

 

1992a The inheritance of presuppositions. Linguistics and Philosophy. 15: 333-379.

 

1992b At least.  In A. Lehrer and E.F. Kittay (eds.), Frames, Fields, and Contrasts.  Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum. 309-331.

 

1994  Anaphoric binding in construction grammar.  Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 283-299.

 

1995  Construction grammar.  In Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Ostman, and Jan Blommaert (eds.) Handbook of Pragmatics.  Amsterdam, Philadelphia: J. Benjamins.

 

1996  Intraspeaker relativity. In Rethinking Linguistic Relativity . edited by John J. Gumperz and Stephen C. Levinson.  Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press.

 

1977a  Words and the Grammar of Context.  Center for the Study of Language and Information: Stanford, California: Stanford University. 263 pp.

 

1997b (__, Brent Berlin, Luisa Maffi and William Merifield). Color naming across languages. In Color Categories in Thought and Language. edited by C.L. Hardin and Luisa Maffi. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press.

 

1997c (__ and Brent Berlin). Science ­ Imperialism: there are non-trivial constraints on color categorization". Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20: 196-201.

 

1999a. (__ and Charles J. Fillmore). Grammatical constructions and linguistic generalizations: the What's X doing Y? construction. Language 75: 1-33.

 

1999b. Color Categorization." MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, Robert A. Wilson and Frank C. Keil (eds.). Cambridge, MA: MIT.

 

1999c. The emergence of basic color lexicons hypothesis. In The Language of Color in the Mediterranean, Alexander Borg (ed.). Stolkholm: Almqvist and Wiksell International.

 

1999d. La recherche interlinguistique sur les noms de couleur. Anthropologie et sociŽtŽs.23: 135-151.

 

1999e.  Assymetries in the distribution of composite and derived basic color categories.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 22: 957-958.

 

1999f.  Color. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 9:32-35.

 

1999g. (__ and Luisa Maffi). Color appearance and the emergence and evolution of basic color lexicons. American Anthroplogist.101: 743-760.

 

2000a.  Comprehension deficits of Broca's aphasics provide no evidence for traces. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.20: 196-201.

 

2000b. In defense of Color Categories in Thought and Language (Hardin and Maffi, eds.), American Anthropologist. 102: 321-323.

 

2001.  Linguistics of color terms.  International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.ed. by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes. Elsevier.

2002a.  English subjectless tagged sentences. Language. 78: 453-481.

 

2002b. An informal sketch of a formal architecture for construction grammar.  Grammars. 5: 1-19.

 

2002c. Individual differences in unique and binary hues. (Gokhan Malkoc, __, and Michael A. Webster. [Abstract] Journal of Vision. 2, 32.

 

2003. Resolving the question of color naming universals (__ and Terry Regier) Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 100: 9085-9089.

 

2004a. Pragmatic aspect of grammatical constructions.  In The Handbook of Pragmatics.  ed.. by Laurence Horn and Gregory Ward. London: Blackwell.

 

2004b. Color naming and sunlight. (Terry Regier and __) Psych. Sci. 15: 289-290.

 

2005a. Color naming, lens aging and grue: What the optics of the aging eye can teach us about color language. (J.L. Hardy, C. Frederick, __, and J.S. Werner) Psych. Sci.  16: 321-327.

 

2005b. Color categories are not arbitrary. Cross Cultural Research. 39: 72-80.

 

2005c Universal foci and varying boundaries in linguistic color categories. (Terry Regier, __, and Richard S. Cook) Proc. 27th Meeting of the Cog. Sci. Soc.

 

2005d Argument structure constructions and the argument-adjunct distinction. In Grammatical Constructions: Back to the Roots. M. Fried and H. Boas (eds.) Amsterdam: Benjamins. pp. 71-98.

 

2005e. The World Color Survey database: History and use. (Richard S. Cook, __, and Terry Regier. in Henri Cohen and Claire Lefebvre (eds.) Handbook of Categorization in the Social Sciences. Elsevier.

 

2005f. Focal color are universal after all. Terry Regier, __ and Richard S. Cook. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102:8 386-8391.

 

2005g. Variations in color naming within and across populations. Michael A. Webster and ­­__. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 512-513.

 

2005h Whorf hypothesis is supported in the right visual field but not the left. Aubrey L. Gilbert, Terry Regier, __, and Richard B. Ivry. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  103, 489-494.

 

2005i  Malcok, Gokhan, __, & Michael A. Webster. Variations in normal color vision.IV. Binary hues and hue scaling. J.Opt. Soc. Am. A. 22, 2154-2168.

 

2006a Color naming universals: the case of Berinmo. __ and Terry Regier. Cognition. 102(2):289-98.

 

2006b Language, thought and color: recent developments. __ and Terry Regier. TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences Vol.10 No.2.

 

2007a Further evidence that Whorfian effects are stronger in the right visual field than the left. G. V. Drivonikou, __, T. Regier, R. B. Ivry, A. L. Gilbert, A. Franklin, and I. R. L. Davies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104, 1097-1102.

 

2007b Color naming reflects optimal partitions of color space. T. Regier, __, and N. Khetarpal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104, 1436-1441.

 

In press a. Patterns of coining. To appear in a collection of papers from the Second International Construction Grammar Conference, ed. by Hans Boas and Mirjam Fried.

 

In press b. Individual and population differences in focal colors. (Michael A. Webster and __) The Anthropology of Color. ed by. Robert E. MacLaury, Galina V. Paramei and Don Dedrick. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

 

In press c. Terry Regier, __, and Naveen Khetarpal (in press). Color naming is near optimal. To appear in Proceedings of the 2007 Cognitive Science conference.