American linguist
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
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
^ "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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