Jane Grimshaw

Jane Barbara Grimshaw (born 1951) is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.^[1] She is known for her contributions to the areas of Syntax, Optimality theory, Language acquisition, and Lexical representation. She and Alan Prince are considered to be at the center of an "outstanding group of linguists" working on Optimality Theory.^[2]

Early life and education

Grimshaw received her B.A. in Anthropology and Linguistics from University College London in 1973, and her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1977.^[3]

Career

Grimshaw was on the faculty of Linguistics at Brandeis University from 1977 to 1992. There she worked closely with Ray Jackendoff, with whom she was a Co-Principal Investigator on several projects.^[4]

In 1992, she joined the faculty of Linguistics at Rutgers. She is a member of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS), and was the acting co-director from 2011-2012. She taught at two Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Summer Institutes: University of California, Santa Cruz (1991) and University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (1999).^[3][5] She served on the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society of America from 1996-1998.^[6]

Personal life

Grimshaw is married to Alan Prince.^[7]

Bibliography

• Grimshaw, Jane B. (1985). English wh-constructions and the theory of grammar. New York: Garland Pub. ISBN 0824054482.
• Grimshaw, Jane (1990). Argument structure (1st ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262570909.
• Coopmans, Peter; Everaert, Martin; Grimshaw, Jane, eds. (2000). Lexical specification and insertion. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publisher. ISBN 9789027299581.
• Legendre, Geraldine; Grimshaw, Jane; Vikner, Sten, eds. (2001). Optimality-theoretic syntax. Cambridge: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262621380.
• Grimshaw, Jane (2005). Words and structure (2nd ed.). Stanford, Calif.: CSLI (Center for the Study of Language and Information). ISBN 9781575864228.
• Zaenen, Annie; Simpson, Jane; King, Tracy Holloway; Grimshaw, Jane; Maling, Joan; Manning, Christopher, eds. (2007). Architectures, rules, and preferences: variations on themes by Joan W. Bresnan. Stanford, Calif.: CSLI Publications, Center for the Study of Language and Information. ISBN 9781575865607.
• Selected Papers in Optimality Theory:
  • Projection, heads, and optimality (ROA 68)^[8]
  • The best clitic: Constraint conflict in morphosyntax (ROA 250)^[9]
  • Optimal clitic positions and the lexicon in romance clitic systems (ROA 374)^[10]
  • Economy of structure in OT (ROA 434)^[11]
  • Chains as unfaithful optima (ROA 844.04)^[12]
  • Location specific constraints in matrix and subordinate clauses (with supplementary materials) (ROA 857, 1201)^[13]
  • Last resorts and grammaticality (ROA 892.02), in Optimality Theory and Minimalism: A Possible Convergence, Broekhuis, Hans, and Vogel, Ralf, eds. ^[14][15]
  • Last resorts: A typology of do-support (with supplementary materials) (ROA 1111, 1127)^[16][17]
  • Linguistic and cognitive explanation in Optimality Theory, with Bruce Tesar and Alan Prince. in Lepore, Ernest; Pylyshyn, Zenon (1999). What is Cognitive Science?. Blackwell.

Awards and honors

• Sloan Post-doctoral Fellowship, Center for Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1979-80)^[3]
• American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship (1982-83)^[18]
• Bernstein Faculty Fellowship, Brandeis University (1984-85)^[19]
• Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (2000-2001)^[20]

References

1. "Jane Grimshaw". MIT Press. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
2. Cattell, Ray (2006). An introduction to mind, consciousness and language (1st ed.). London: Continuum. p. 193. ISBN 9780826455154. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
3. "Jane Grimshaw". Rutgers University. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
4. "Ray Jackendoff" (PDF). Tufts University. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
5. "Past Linguistic Institutes | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
6. "Executive Committee (1925 - 2015) | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
7. Grimshaw, Jane. "Retirement = time". Short ’schrift for Alan Prince. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
8. "Projection, heads and optimality". roa.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
9. "The best clitic". roa.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
10. "Optimal clitic positions and the lexicon in romance clitic systems". roa.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
11. "Economy of structure in OT". roa.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
12. "Chains as unfaithful optima". roa.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
13. "Location specific constraints in metric and subordinate clauses". roa.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
14. "Last resorts and grammaticality". roa.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
15. "Optimality Theory and Minimalism: A Possible Convergence?". rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
16. "Last resorts". roa.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
17. "Supplementary Materials". roa.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
18. "Jane B. Grimshaw F'82". ACLS American Council of Learned Societies. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
19. Grimshaw, Jane; Mester, Armin (1988). "Light Verbs and θ-Marking". Linguistic Inquiry 19 (2): 205–232. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
20. "Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences". casbs.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-08.