Adele Goldberg (linguist)
Adele Eva Goldberg (born 1963) is an American linguist, best known for the construction grammar in the tradition of cognitive linguistics. Academic career. In 1985, Goldberg received a B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy from University of Pennsylvania. She received an M.A. in 1989 in linguistics, and in 1992 a PhD in linguistics, both from the University of California at Berkeley, studying with George Lakoff, Charles Fillmore, and Dan Slobin. Since 2004, she has been Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at Princeton University. From 1997 to 2004, she was Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Beckman Institute, University  of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. From 1992 to 1997, she was Assistant Professor of Linguistics and from 1997 to 1998 Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego. Personal life. She is married to Ali Yazdani, a professor of physics, and they have two children. Her brother is Ken Y. Goldberg, an IEOR professor at UC Berkeley.