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Pauline Jacobson

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Short description: American linguist
Pauline (Polly) Jacobson
NationalityUnited States
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
FieldsSemantics & Categorial Grammar syntax
InstitutionsBrown University

Pauline (Polly) Jacobson is a professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences 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

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

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

  • 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

  1. ↑ "Pauline Jacobson". https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xygZvOIAAAAJ&hl=en. 
  2. ↑ "Publications | Linguistics". https://lx.berkeley.edu/publications?topics=All&pubtype=22&order=field_openberkeley_pubs_pdate&sort=desc. 
  3. ↑ "Cognitive, Linguistic, & Psychological Sciences at Brown University" Retrieved on 8 August 2017.
  4. ↑ "2005 LSA Institute - People - Pauline Jacobson". http://web.mit.edu/lsa2005/people/bios/jacobson.html. 
  5. ↑ "Pauline Jacobson's CV"
  6. ↑ "Linguistic Society of America List of Fellows by Year". https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/lsa-fellows-year-induction. 
  7. ↑ Jacobson, Pauline. "Towards a Variable-Free Semantics", Linguistics and Philosophy, 1999. Retrieved on 8 August 2017.
  8. ↑ Jacobson, Pauline. "On the Quantificational Force of English Free Relatives", In Quantification in Natural Languages, 1995. ISBN 978-0792333524. Retrieved on 8 August 2017.
  9. ↑ Jacobson, Pauline. "Paycheck pronouns, Bach-Peters sentences, and variable-free semantics", Natural Language Semantics, 2000. Retrieved on 8 August 2017.
  10. ↑ Jacobson, Pauline. "Raising as Function Composition", Linguistics and Philosophy, 1990. Retrieved on 8 August 2017.
  11. ↑ Jacobson, Pauline. "The Nature of Syntactic Representation", 1982. Springer. ISBN 978-94-009-7707-5. Retrieved on 8 August 2017.




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