Charles J. Fillmore

Charles J. Fillmore
Fillmore in 2012
Born	(1929-08-09)August 9, 1929 St. Paul, Minnesota, US
Died	February 13, 2014(2014-02-13) (aged 84) San Francisco, California, US
Spouse	Lily Wong Fillmore
Awards	2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Computational Linguistics
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Minnesota (B.A, Linguistics)[1] University of Michigan (Ph.D., 1961)
Academic work
Discipline	Linguist
Institutions	Ohio State University
Notable students	Laura Michaelis, Len Talmy, Eve Sweetser, Miriam R. L. Petruck
Main interests	Cognitive linguistics, case grammar, frame semantics, FrameNet
Website	linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/fac/fillmore.html

Charles J. Fillmore (August 9, 1929 – February 13, 2014) was an American linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Michigan in 1961. Fillmore spent ten years at Ohio State University and a year as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University before joining Berkeley's Department of Linguistics in 1971.^[1] Fillmore was extremely influential in the areas of syntax and lexical semantics.

A three–day conference was held at UC Berkeley in celebration of his 80th birthday in 2009.^[2] Fillmore received the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Association for Computational Linguistics.^[3] He died in 2014.^[4]