[2] Elizabeth Traugott's initial appointment was in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley (1964-1970).
She served as Chair of the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University from 1980-1985 and as Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies from 1985-1991.
Dissatisfaction with generative models led her to collaborate with Paul Hopper (Carnegie Mellon University) and develop a functional approach to grammaticalization, understood as the change whereby lexical items and constructions come in certain linguistic contexts to serve grammatical functions (Hopper and Traugott 1993, revised ed.
1980 (Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Mary L. Pratt) Linguistics for Students of Literature.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc. 1986 (Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Alice ter Meulen, Judith Snitzer Reilly, and Charles A. Ferguson, eds.)
2002 (Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Richard B. Dasher) Regularity in Semantic Change.
2005 (Laurel J. Brinton and Elizabeth Closs Traugott) Lexicalization and Language Change.
2013 (Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale) Constructionalization and Constructional Changes.