M. Lynne Murphy (born 1965) is a professor of linguistics at the University of Sussex, England.
Studies
Murphy has a B.A. in Linguistics and Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, as well as an A.M. and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Career
Murphy taught at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and Baylor University in
Texas. In 2000, she moved to England and began teaching at the University of Sussex where she became a professor. Her linguistic research specialises in
semantics, in particular semantic relations.
She has written 5 books: Semantic Relations and the Lexicon,
Her book The Prodigal Tongue (for which she received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
In 2012, she gave a TEDx talk at the University of Sussex,
Honors and awards
Murphy received a grant from the NEH Public Scholars Program
for her most recent book,
The Prodigal Tongue.
Selected publications
Books
-
M. Lynne Murphy. 2003. Semantic relations and the lexicon: antonymy, synonymy and other paradigms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
-
M. Lynne Murphy. 2010. Lexical meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
-
Lynne Murphy. 2018. The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-hate Relationship Between American and British English. Penguin.
Journal articles
-
Steven Jones and M. Lynne Murphy. 2005. "Using corpora to investigate antonym acquisition," International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10 (3), 401-422.
-
Steven Jones, Carita Paradis, M Lynne Murphy, and Caroline Willners. 2007. "Googling for ‘opposites’: A Web-based study of antonym canonicity," Corpora 2 (2), 129-154.
-
M. Lynne Murphy and Steven Jones, 2008. "Antonyms in children's and child-directed speech," First Language 28 (4), 403-430.
External links
