Adele E. Goldberg

Adele Goldberg, professor and associate chair in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University, is a linguist by training and a psychologist by choice. Her research focuses on the constructionist approach to language, which views language as a product of both form and function. She studies statistical and functional factors in an effort to explain our creative but constrained use of language in typical and atypical populations, and in child and adult learners.

Goldberg is the Principal Investigator of Princeton's Psychology of Language Lab, where the research is focused on the usage-based constructionist approach to language, which emphasizes the role of emergent generalizations based on the functions of constructions, statistics in the input and domain-general cognitive processes. 

Goldberg has been a Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at Princeton University since 2004. She is the author of Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure (1995), Constructions at Work: The Nature of Generalization in Language (2006), and Explain Me This: Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions (2019).