Affiliation 
(1) Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Alberta, Canada
(2) Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics, Monash University, Australia

Highest degree
PhD, Linguistics, 1981, University of California at San Diego

Areas of specialization
Corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics

Institutional website
https://www.ualberta.ca/linguistics/index.html

Personal website
https://www.johnnewm.org/

Email
newmanjohn194 (at) gmail.com

Research interests in the field of Linguistics of Food (LOF)
Syntactic and semantic properties of ingestive predicate in languages of the world

Data and language(s) used in my data
Corpus data (British National Corpus, Corpus of Contemporary American) and experimental data (elicitation experiments)

LOF-related publications

• Newman, J. and D. Zhao. published on-line Jan 24 2022. Mandarin chi 'eat' in elicitation and corpora. Chinese Language & Discourse.
• Newman, J. (ed.) 2009. The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking. [Studies in Typological Linguistics 84]. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 
• Newman, J. 2009. A cross-linguistic overview of 'eat' and 'drink'. In J. Newman (ed.), The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking, pp. 1-25. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 
• Newman, J. and D. Aberra. 2009. Amharic 'eat' and 'drink' verbs. In J. Newman (ed.), The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking, pp. 253-271. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 
• Newman, J. 1997. Eating and drinking as sources of metaphor in English. Cuadernos de Filología Inglesa (Special volume on Cognitive Linguistics) 6.2: 213-231.