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]

Education[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Grimshaw is married to linguist Alan Prince.[8]

Selected publications[edit]

Library resources about
Jane Grimshaw
By Jane Grimshaw
  • 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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  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. ^ a b c "Jane Grimshaw". Rutgers University. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  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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