<p>I'm about to finish my undergraduate degree in linguistics (generative)
now I'm trying to search for the top functional/cognitive linguistics programs available (searching on the web didn't help me that much)
Could someone please help me???</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>Try searching under psycholinguistics then.</p>
<p>I’m afraid it has nothing to do with psycholinguistics. any generative linguist can work on psycholinguistics as well. functional/cognitive linguistics is totally another approach to linguistics, and it seems that there is no ordered list for these linguistics programs…</p>
<p>I would assume the head of your dept at school has the best answers available for you. </p>
<p>So help us out so we can help you better… What exactly is functional/cognitive linguistics?</p>
<p>UCSD will come to mind first of all (due to Ronald Langacker)</p>
<p>Other scholars include George Lakoff, Charles Fillmore, which would mean Cal (Berkeley)</p>
<p>Generally, the east coast are all about formal linguistics, while the west coast is the home of functionalist, basically headed by the top UCs (Cal, UCLA, UCSB and UCSD: check out the linguistic or applied linguistic dept. of these schools).</p>
<p>Other schools worth looking into are Penn, Stanford, UIUC, Wisconsin-Madison, Ohio State and maybe Northern Arizona.</p>
<p>functionalist:</p>
<p>You might also want to consider on what basis a functional/cognitive-based linguistic program would want to accept you, given you were trained in formal linguistics.</p>
<p>In the SOP, how are you going to discuss what made you decide on a switch from a more theoretical model to one which is more steeped in empiricism.</p>
<p>What attempts have you made or how have you come to an understanding of functional/cognitive linguistic as being a path suitable for yourself?</p>