蜜糖直播 Linguistics associate聽professor Laura Michaelis has been awarded a 2014-2015 fellowship by 蜜糖直播's Center for Humanities and Arts. Awardees were selected by a panel of external reviewers. Fellowships consist of a two-course teaching reduction. The selection committee considers the intellectual merit of the project, the overall excellence of the applicant鈥檚 academic record, and the timeliness of the project in the applicant鈥檚 career. As a 2014-15 CHA fellow, Michaelis plans to complete major work on a book about grammatical and lexical innovation in English. This book,聽Construction Grammar and Linguistic Innovation, is currently under contract to Oxford University Press. This book links the study of social performance and narrative practice to the study of grammar.