Jane Grimshaw

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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]

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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

Awards and honors

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  2. ↑ Cattell, Ray (2006). An introduction to mind, consciousness and language (1st ed.). London: Continuum. p. 193. ISBN   9780826455154 . Retrieved 10 January 2016.
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  4. ↑ "Alumni | UMass Linguistics" . Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  5. ↑ "Ray Jackendoff" (PDF). Tufts University. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  6. ↑ "Past Linguistic Institutes | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
  7. ↑ "Executive Committee (1925 - 2015) | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. 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. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
  11. ↑ "Optimal clitic positions and the lexicon in romance clitic systems". roa.rutgers.edu. 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.
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