Annie Zaenen
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][3]
She has worked on both the syntax of Germanic languages and on the development of Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), with excursions into lexical semantics.[4][3] 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.[4] 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.[8]
She was the founding editor of the online journal Linguistic Issues in Language Technology.[9]
In 2024 Zaenen was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Department of Linguistics of the University of Konstanz.[10]
Partial bibliography
- Tense and aspect Template:ISBN[11]
- Modern Icelandic syntax Template:ISBN[12]
- Papers in lexical-functional grammar[13]
- Subjects and other subjects[14]
- Extraction rules in Icelandic Template:ISBN[15]
- Architectures, rules, and preferences Template:ISBN[16]
References
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- ↑ King, Tracy Holloway and Valeria de Paivs (eds.) From Quirky Case to Representing Space: Papers in Honor of Annie Zaenen. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA.2013. pp. 232. Template:ISBN. http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/9781575866628.shtml
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External links
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