Douglas Biber

Douglas Biber is currently Regents’ Professor in the Applied Linguistics Program (English Department) at Northern Arizona University. 

He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Southern California in 1984, and was awarded an Honorary Ph.D. from the University of Uppsala in 2000.  Since 1990, he has spent time as a visiting professor at numerous universities around the world, including the Universities of Copenhagen, Hamburg, Zurich, Helsinki, Uppsala, Bergen, Stockholm, Temple University Japan, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile), Michigan State University (LSA Summer Institute), and the Norwegian Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Biber has published 11 authored and co-authored books, with Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Longman, and John Benjamins.  In addition, he has published 5 edited books and monographs, and over 150 journal articles and book chapters.  These studies have addressed a wide range of issues in corpus linguistics, English grammar, and register variation (in English and cross-linguistic; synchronic and diachronic).  Research articles have appeared in numerous research journals, including Corpora, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, Applied Linguistics, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Journal of English Linguistics, Discourse Studies, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Text, Literary and Linguistic Computing, Computational Linguistics, Language Variation and Change, Discourse Processes, Linguistics, Language, and American Speech.