Pauline Jacobson
Pauline (Polly) Jacobson | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Semantics & Categorial Grammar syntax |
| Institutions | Brown University |
Pauline (Polly) Jacobson is a 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]
Education
[edit]She completed her Ph.D in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1977.[2] 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.[3]
Honors
[edit]She has regularly taught at the summer institutes of the Linguistic Society of America[4] and at the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI).[5]
In 2022, Jacobson was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.[6]
Selected publications
[edit]- Jacobson, Pauline. 1999. "Towards a Variable-Free Semantics", Linguistics and Philosophy, 22, 117-184.[7]
- Jacobson, Pauline. 1995. "On the Quantificational Force of English Free Relatives". in E. Bach, E. Jelinek, A. Kratzer, and B. Partee (eds.), Quantification in Natural Languages, pp. 451–486. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. ISBN 978-0792333524.[8]
- Jacobson, Pauline. 2000. "Paycheck pronouns, Bach-Peters sentences, and variable-free semantics". Natural Language Semantics, 8, 77-155.[9]
- Jacobson, Pauline. "Raising as Function Composition". 1990. Linguistics and Philosophy, 13, 423-475.[10]
- Jacobson, Pauline and Geoffrey K. Pullum. 1982. The Nature of Syntactic Representation. Springer.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Pauline Jacobson". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
- ^ "Publications | Linguistics". lx.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
- ^ "Brown University Linguistics" Retrieved on 25 April 2024.
- ^ "2005 LSA Institute - People - Pauline Jacobson". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
- ^ "Pauline Jacobson's CV"
- ^ "Linguistic Society of America List of Fellows by Year". Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- ^ Jacobson, Pauline. "Towards a Variable-Free Semantics", Linguistics and Philosophy, 1999. Retrieved on 8 August 2017.
- ^ Jacobson, Pauline. "On the Quantificational Force of English Free Relatives", In Quantification in Natural Languages, 1995. ISBN 978-0792333524. Retrieved on 8 August 2017.
- ^ Jacobson, Pauline. "Paycheck pronouns, Bach-Peters sentences, and variable-free semantics", Natural Language Semantics, 2000. Retrieved on 8 August 2017.
- ^ Jacobson, Pauline. "Raising as Function Composition", Linguistics and Philosophy, 1990. Retrieved on 8 August 2017.
- ^ Jacobson, Pauline. "The Nature of Syntactic Representation", 1982. Springer. ISBN 978-94-009-7707-5. Retrieved on 8 August 2017.
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