Pauline Jacobson Explained

Pauline (Polly) Jacobson
Nationality:American
Field:Semantics & Categorial Grammar syntax
Work Institution:Brown University
Alma Mater:University of California, Berkeley

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

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

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pauline Jacobson. 2021-11-04. scholar.google.com.
  2. Web site: Publications Linguistics. 2021-11-04. lx.berkeley.edu.
  3. https://vivo.brown.edu/display/pjacobso "Brown University Linguistics"
  4. Web site: 2005 LSA Institute - People - Pauline Jacobson. 2021-11-04. web.mit.edu.
  5. https://vivo.brown.edu/docs/drrb/1106970099.pdf "Pauline Jacobson's CV"
  6. Web site: Linguistic Society of America List of Fellows by Year . 11 March 2022.
  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. . 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. . Retrieved on 8 August 2017.

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