# William B. McGregor

William Bernard McGregor is an Australian linguist. As of 2024, he is a professor in linguistics at Aarhus University in Denmark.

## Early life and education

McGregor received his doctorate from the University of Sydney in 1984.

## Career

McGregor had a number of positions through different institutions in Australia, before moving to Europe. He was appointed senior research fellow at KU Leuven in Belgium in 1998, and then visiting research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, Netherlands, for one and a half years. Since 2000, he has been a full professor at Aarhus University.
He specialises in the description of mainly non-Pama-Nyungan Australian languages, and does descriptive linguistic work on Gooniyandi, Nyulnyul and Warrwa languages. Since 2010, he has also studied Shua, a language spoken in Botswana. He works on theoretical and typological issues from within a variation of systemic functional linguistics he developed, called "semiotic grammar".
In addition to his own books, McGregor has published articles and book chapters about the work of other social scientists in Australia, notably the work of German linguists and ethnographers such as Pallottine missionary Ernest Worms and his mentor, Hermann Nekes [de].

## Recognition and honours

McGregor was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1999, and became a member of Academia Europaea in 2014.
In 2010, Demark honoured him with knighthood in the Order of the Dannebrog.

## Other activities

As of September 2024 he serves on the editorial boards of the Australian Journal of Linguistics and Language and History.

## Selected publications

* McGregor, William B. (1990). A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN 9789027230256.
* McGregor, William B. (1997). Semiotic grammar. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0198236883.
* McGregor, William B. (2011). The Nyulnyul language of Dampier Land, Western Australia (PDF). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Australian National University. ISBN 9780858836471. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
* McGregor, William B. (2015). Linguistics: An Introduction (2. ed.). London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9780567483393.
* McGregor, William B. (2021). Neo-Firthian Approaches to Linguistic Typology. Sheffield, UK: Equinox Publishing. ISBN 9781781796665.

## Referencer

* ↑ "William Bernard McGregor". Aarhus University. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
* ↑ McGregor, William B. (1984). A grammar of Kuniyanti: an Australian Aboriginal language of the southern Kimberley, Western Australia (Ph.D. thesis). hdl:2123/15383.
* 1 2 Hasani, Ilire; Hoffmann, Robert (24 September 2010). "Academy of Europe: McGregor William Bernard". Academy of Europe. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
* ↑ Willemsen, Jeroen (7 May 2018). "Description, theory and linguistics as a science – an interview with William B. McGregor". Lingoblog.dk. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
* ↑ "William Bernard McGregor - Biography". Academia Europaea. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
* ↑ McGregor, William B. (2017). "Father Worms's contribution to Australian Aboriginal anthropology". German Ethnography in Australia. ANU Press. pp. 329–356. ISBN 978-1-76046-131-7. JSTOR j.ctt1ws7wn5.22.
* ↑ McGregor, William B. (23 November 2015). "Frs. Hermann Nekes and Ernest Worms's "Australian Languages"". Anthropos. 102 (1): 99–114. doi:10.5771/0257-9774-2007-1-99. JSTOR 40466792.
* ↑ "Fellow Profile: William McGregor". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 1 May 2024.
* ↑ "Modtagere af danske dekorationer". www.kongehuset.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 10 April 2022.
* ↑ "Australian Journal of Linguistics Editorial Board". Taylor & Francis. Taylor and Francis. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
* ↑ "Language & History Editorial Board". Taylor & Francis. Taylor and Francis. Retrieved 26 September 2024.