Charles J. Fillmore (1929-2014) was an American linguist who shaped modern cognitive linguistics, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and based for most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He developed Case Grammar in 1968, arguing that syntactic structure can be predicted from semantic participant roles such as agent, patient and location, and later advanced Frame Semantics in 1976, the theory that word meaning is understood through mental frames of participants and elements. With Paul Kay and George Lakoff he helped develop Construction Grammar, and after retiring from Berkeley in 1994 he created FrameNet, an online lexical resource describing English words through semantic frames and corpus examples. Fillmore served as president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1991 and received the Association for Computational Linguistics Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.
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Charles J. Fillmore (August 9, 1929
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Charles J. Fillmore (August 9, 1929, February 13, 2014) was an American linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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