William J. Frawley

Cognitive Scientist and Linguist, Center for Applied Linguistics

William Frawley is a linguist and cognitive scientist affiliated with the Center for Applied Linguistics, in Washington, D.C.

He has held professorial appointments in linguistics at several major universities and has published more than a dozen books on language.

From 2002 to 2006, he was the dean of George Washington University’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. He served as president of the University of Mary Washington, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, from July 2006 to April 2007.