James Edward Miller (1942 - 8 February 2019) was a Professor of cognitive linguistics at the University of Auckland, researcher on language syntax, semantics and standardology.
In the period of 2003-2007 he was Professor Emeritus of Spoken Language at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of the University of Edinburgh.
at the University of Edinburgh in Russian and French, receiving a Diploma in General Linguistics a year later.
[1] After graduation, his main focus of interest for the first 20 years were in aspect, case and transitivity, as well as various models of the generative grammar framework.
As a result of this research, he published a book Spontaneous Spoken Language together with Regina Weinert in 1998.