Annie Zaenen Explained

Annie Else Zaenen (born 1941, in Belgium) is an adjunct professor of linguistics at Stanford University, California, United States.^[1]

Career

Zaenen obtained her Ph.D. at Harvard University with her doctoral thesis Extraction Rules in Icelandic in 1980.^[2] After a postdoc at MIT, she taught syntax at the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, and Harvard, before joining PARC and Stanford.^[3] During the ‘90s, she was the manager of the Natural Language group of the Xerox Research Centre Europe in Grenoble, France. After Zaenen retired from PARC in 2011, she joined a research group on Language and Natural Reasoning at CSLI working on the linguistic encoding of temporal and spatial information, local textual inferences and natural logic.^[4]

She has worked on both the syntax of Germanic languages and on the development of Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), with excursions into lexical semantics. Her contributions to the theory of Lexical Functional Grammar are in the development of notions such as long-distance dependencies, functional uncertainty and the difference between subsumption and equality. She had numerous widely-cited publications on these topics.^{[5] [6]} Zaenen is also known for her sharp commentary on research trends in Computational Linguistics.^[7]

Honors

In 2013, Zaenen was honored by a Festschrift, edited by Tracy Holloway King and Valeria de Paiva.

She was the founding editor of the online journal Linguistic Issues in Language Technology.^[8]

Partial bibliography

• Tense and aspect ^[9]
• Modern Icelandic syntax ^[10]
• Papers in lexical-functional grammar^[11]
• Subjects and other subjects^[12]
• Extraction rules in Icelandic ^[13]
• Architectures, rules, and preferences ^[14]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Faculty Linguistics . 2023-05-27 . linguistics.stanford.edu . en.
2. Book: Zaenen, Annie Else. Extraction Rules in Icelandic. Harvard University. 1980. 978-0-8240-5443-4.
3. Web site: Stanford Linguistics faculty . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120426000942/http://linguistics.stanford.edu/people/faculty-and-researchers/ . 2012-04-26 . 2012-05-07 . stanford.edu . Stanford.
4. Web site: History of Speech and Language Technology . 2009-04-28 . sarasinstitute.org . Saras Institute.
5. Web site: Annie Zaenen, Publication List Details. en.scientificcommons.org. Scientific Commons. 2009-04-28.
6. Web site: Annie Zaenen . 2023-05-27 . scholar.google.com.
7. Mark-up Barking Up the Wrong Tree. Annie. Zaenen. December 30, 2006. Computational Linguistics. 32. 4. 577–580. 10.1162/coli.2006.32.4.577. 10051962. free.
8. Web site: Editorial Team, Linguistic Issues in Language Technology . 2023-05-27 . journals.colorado.edu . en-US.
9. Book: Kimball, John P. . Philip J. Tedeschi, Annie Zaenen. Tense and Aspect. Academic Press. 1981. 301. 978-0-12-613514-5.
10. Book: Joan Maling . Annie Zaenen . Joan Maling, Stephen R. Anderson, Annie Zaenen. Modern Icelandic syntax . Academic Press. 1990. 443. 978-0-12-613524-4.
11. Book: Lori Levin . Malka Rappaport . Malka Rappaport Hovav . Annie Else Zaenen . Indiana University Linguistics Club . Papers in lexical-functional grammar. Indiana University Linguistics Club. 1983. 191.
12. Book: Annie Else Zaenen . Harvard University . Indiana University Linguistics Club . Subjects and other subjects: proceedings of the Harvard Conference on the Representation of Grammatical Relations, December, 1981. Indiana University Linguistics Club. 1982. 153.
13. Book: Zaenen, Annie Else. Extraction rules in Icelandic. Garland Pub.. 1985. illustrated. 393. 978-0-8240-5443-4 .
14. Book: Zaenen, Annie. Architectures, Rules, and Preferences: Variations on Themes by Joan W. Bresnan. Center for the Study of Language and Inf. 2007. illustrated. 554. 978-1-57586-560-7 .