Andrea D. Sims | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | The Ohio State University (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Brian D. Joseph |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguistics |
| Sub-discipline | Morphology,Slavic Linguistics |
| Website | OSU faculty page |
Andrea D. Sims is a linguist and professor in the Department of Linguistics at The Ohio State University (OSU). She researches morphological theory,especially inflection,focusing primarily on the Slavic languages. [1]
Sims earned her PhD in linguistics at The Ohio State University in 2006 with a dissertation entitled,"Minding the gaps:Inflectional defectiveness in a paradigmatic theory". [2] [3]
Sims worked at Northwestern University as a postdoctoral fellow from 2006 until 2008,before starting at Ohio State in 2008 as an assistant professor,and she was promoted to the position of Professor in 2024. [2] [4]
Sims has received major grant funding from the National Science Foundation for her academic work,most recently for the project Neural discovery of abstract inflectional structure (2022–2026). [5]
In 2025,Sims was elected as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America. [6]
Sims serves as a co-Editor of the journal Word Structure . [7]