John A. Hawkins is Professor of English andApplied Linguistics at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics (RCEAL) at theUniversity of Cambridge.^[1] As of 2007 he is also a professor in the Department of Linguistics atUC Davis.^[2]

His main research interests are inEnglish grammar,psycholinguistics,language universals,linguistic typology andhistorical linguistics.

• Definiteness and Indefiniteness (1978, Humanities Press & Croom Helm; 2015, Routledge)
• Word Order Universals (1983, Academic Press)
• A Comparative Typology of English and German (1986, University of Texas Press; 2015, Routledge)
• [Editor] Explaining Language Universals (1988, Basil Blackwell)
• A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency (1994, Cambridge University Press)
• Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars (2004, Oxford University Press)
• Cross-linguistic Variation and Efficiency (2014, Oxford University Press)

• Hawkins at the University of Cambridge
• Hawkins at UC Davis

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