Pauline Jacobson

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Pauline (Polly) Jacobson
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Born (1947-07-09) 9 July 1947 (age 78)
New Haven, Connecticut
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
Fields Semantics & Categorial Grammar syntax
Institutions Brown University

Pauline (Polly) Jacobson (born 9 July 1947) is a linguist, semantician, and professor of Linguistics at Brown University, where she has been since 1977. She is known for her work on variable free semantics, direct compositionality, and transderivationality. [1]

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Life

Pauline Jacobson was born in 1947 to Nathan Jacobson (1910-1999), a Yale University mathematician, and his wife, Florence Dorfman Jacobson (1918-1996). She has one older brother, Michael. [2] She was named after her paternal grandmother, Pesse (later Pauline) Aidel (Ida) Rosenberg, who died in 1941. [3] She is Jewish. Jacobson's father was born as Nachman Arbiser (Arbisar) in Warsaw, Poland, and immigrated to the US with his parents, Gershon Yakov Arbuser (son of Chaim Arbiser and Ruckla Kinsberg) and Pauline Aidel Rosenberg. [4] The last name Jacobson was adopted at Ellis Island by Gershon (who later went by Charles Jacobson). [5] Pauline's mother, Florence "Florie" Dorfman Jacobson was born to Aron Dorfman [6] (the son of Chaim Dorfman and Celia [Sylvia] Becker) and Anna Dorfman (née Schwartzman) (daughter of Israel and Pearl Schwartzman). Both Aron and Anna were born in Korostyshiv, Ukraine to Jewish parents. Aron's parents Chaim and Celia immigrated to Chicago with Aron and his siblings in the early 1900s. Florence grew up in Chicago, and was a doctoral student at the University of Chicago in 1941 when she met Nathan Jacobson. They then married in August of 1942, and moved to Baltimore. [7]

Education

She completed her Ph.D in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1977. [8] Her Thesis was entitled The Syntax of Crossing Coreference Sentences. She completed her A.B. in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1968. [9]

Honors

She has regularly taught at the summer institutes of the Linguistic Society of America [10] and at the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI). [11]

In 2022, Jacobson was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America. [12]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ "Pauline Jacobson". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  2. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/09/us/nathan-jacobson-dies-at-89-a-leader-in-abstract-algebra.html
  3. ↑ https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Jacobson/
  4. ↑ https://www.anb.org/display/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1302672
  5. ↑ https://www.anb.org/display/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1302672
  6. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/243657875/aron-dorfman
  7. ↑ http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/warsaw/w_pages/warsaw_stories_jacobson.html
  8. ↑ "Publications | Linguistics". lx.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  9. ↑ "Brown University Linguistics" Retrieved on 25 April 2024.
  10. ↑ "2005 LSA Institute - People - Pauline Jacobson". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  11. ↑ "Pauline Jacobson's CV"
  12. ↑ "Linguistic Society of America List of Fellows by Year" . Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  13. ↑ Jacobson, Pauline. "Towards a Variable-Free Semantics", Linguistics and Philosophy , 1999. Retrieved on 8 August 2017.
  14. ↑ Jacobson, Pauline. "On the Quantificational Force of English Free Relatives", In Quantification in Natural Languages, 1995. ISBN   978-0792333524. Retrieved on 8 August 2017.
  15. ↑ Jacobson, Pauline. "Paycheck pronouns, Bach-Peters sentences, and variable-free semantics", Natural Language Semantics, 2000. Retrieved on 8 August 2017.
  16. ↑ Jacobson, Pauline. "Raising as Function Composition", Linguistics and Philosophy , 1990. Retrieved on 8 August 2017.
  17. ↑ Jacobson, Pauline. "The Nature of Syntactic Representation", 1982. Springer. ISBN   978-94-009-7707-5. Retrieved on 8 August 2017.
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