Jane Grimshaw

Jane Barbara Grimshaw (born 1951) is a Distinguished Professor [emerita] in the Department of Linguistics at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. ^[1] She is known for her contributions to the areas of syntax, optimality theory, language acquisition, and lexical representation. ^[2]

Education

Grimshaw received her B.A. in anthropology and linguistics from University College London in 1973, and her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1977. ^{[3] [4]}

Career

Grimshaw was on the faculty of Linguistics at Brandeis University from 1977 to 1992. There she worked closely with Ray Jackendoff, with whom she was a co-principal investigator on several projects. ^[5]

In 1992, she joined the faculty of Linguistics at Rutgers. She is a member of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS), and was the acting co-director from 2011 to 2012.

She taught at two Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Summer Institutes: University of California, Santa Cruz (1991) and University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (1999). ^{[3] [6]}

She served on the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society of America from 1996 to 1998. ^[7]

Personal life

Grimshaw is married to linguist Alan Prince. ^[8]

Selected publications

• Grimshaw, Jane B. (1985). English wh-constructions and the theory of grammar. New York: Garland Pub. ISBN   0824054482.
• Grimshaw, Jane (1990). Argument structure (1st ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN   9780262570909.
• Coopmans, Peter; Everaert, Martin; Grimshaw, Jane, eds. (2000). Lexical specification and insertion. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publisher. ISBN   9789027299581.
• Legendre, Géraldine; Grimshaw, Jane; Vikner, Sten, eds. (2001). Optimality-theoretic syntax. Cambridge: MIT Press. ISBN   9780262621380.
• Grimshaw, Jane (2005). Words and structure (2nd ed.). Stanford, Calif.: CSLI (Center for the Study of Language and Information). ISBN   9781575864228.
• Zaenen, Annie; Simpson, Jane; King, Tracy Holloway; Grimshaw, Jane; Maling, Joan; Manning, Christopher, eds. (2007). Architectures, rules, and preferences: variations on themes by Joan W. Bresnan. Stanford, Calif.: CSLI Publications, Center for the Study of Language and Information. ISBN   9781575865607.
• Selected Papers in Optimality Theory:
  • Projection, heads, and optimality (ROA 68) ^[9]
  • The best clitic: Constraint conflict in morphosyntax (ROA 250) ^[10]
  • Optimal clitic positions and the lexicon in romance clitic systems (ROA 374) ^[11]
  • Economy of structure in OT (ROA 434) ^[12]
  • Chains as unfaithful optima (ROA 844.04) ^[13]
  • Location specific constraints in matrix and subordinate clauses (with supplementary materials) (ROA 857, 1201) ^[14]
  • Last resorts and grammaticality (ROA 892.02), in Optimality Theory and Minimalism: A Possible Convergence, Broekhuis, Hans, and Vogel, Ralf, eds. ^{[15] [16]}
  • Last resorts: A typology of do-support (with supplementary materials) (ROA 1111, 1127) ^{[17] [18]}
  • Linguistic and cognitive explanation in Optimality Theory, with Bruce Tesar and Alan Prince. in Lepore, Ernest; Pylyshyn, Zenon (1999). What is Cognitive Science?. Blackwell.

Awards and honors

• Sloan Post-doctoral Fellowship, Center for Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1979–80) ^[3]
• American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship (1982–83) ^[19]
• Bernstein Faculty Fellowship, Brandeis University (1984–85) ^[20]
• Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (2000-2001) ^[21]

References

1. "Jane Grimshaw". MIT Press. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
2. Cattell, Ray (2006). An introduction to mind, consciousness and language (1st ed.). London: Continuum. p. 193. ISBN   9780826455154 . Retrieved 10 January 2016.
3. "Jane Grimshaw". Rutgers University. Archived from the original on 2 June 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
4. "Alumni | UMass Linguistics" . Retrieved 2021-11-04.
5. "Ray Jackendoff" (PDF). Tufts University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
6. "Past Linguistic Institutes | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Archived from the original on 24 April 2013. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
7. "Executive Committee (1925 - 2015) | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Archived from the original on 16 November 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
8. Grimshaw, Jane. "Retirement = time". Short ’schrift for Alan Prince. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
9. "Projection, heads and optimality". roa.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
10. "The best clitic". roa.rutgers.edu. Archived from the original on 28 September 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
11. "Optimal clitic positions and the lexicon in romance clitic systems". roa.rutgers.edu. Archived from the original on 28 September 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
12. "Economy of structure in OT". roa.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
13. "Chains as unfaithful optima". roa.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
14. "Location specific constraints in metric and subordinate clauses". roa.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
15. "Last resorts and grammaticality". roa.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
16. "Optimality Theory and Minimalism: A Possible Convergence?". rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
17. "Last resorts". roa.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
18. "Supplementary Materials". roa.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
19. "Jane B. Grimshaw F'82". ACLS American Council of Learned Societies. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
20. Grimshaw, Jane; Mester, Armin (1988). "Light Verbs and θ-Marking". Linguistic Inquiry. 19 (2): 205–232. JSTOR   4178587.
21. "Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences". casbs.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-08.