Charles J Fillmore is an American linguist and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Caliornia, Berkeley.
Dr. Fillmore has been extremely influential in the areas of syntax and lexical semantics. He was a proponent of Chomsky's theory of generative grammar during its earliest transformational grammar phase. He was one of the founder of cognitive linguistics, and developed the theories of Case Grammar.
He was one of the first linguists to introduce a representation of linguistic knowledge that blurred this strong disctintion between syntactic and semantic knowledge of a language.
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