Pauline Jacobson

Pauline (Polly) Jacobson
Residence U.S.
Nationality United States
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
Fields Semantics & Categorial Grammar syntax
Institutions Brown University

Pauline (Polly) Jacobson is a professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University, where she has been since 1977. She is known for her work on variable free semantics, direct compositionality, and transderivationality. She completed her Ph.D in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1977. 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.[1] She has regularly taught at the summer institutes of the Linguistic Society of America summer and at the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI).[2]

Selected publications

  • Jacobson, Pauline. 1999. "Towards a Variable-Free Semantics", Linguistics and Philosophy, 22, 117-184.[3]
  • 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.[4]
  • Jacobson, Pauline. 2000. "Paycheck pronouns, Bach-Peters sentences, and variable-free semantics". Natural Language Semantics, 8, 77-155.[5]
  • Jacobson, Pauline. "Raising as Function Composition". 1990. Linguistics and Philosophy, 13, 423-475.[6]
  • Jacobson, Pauline and Geoffrey K. Pullum. 1982. The Nature of Syntactic Representation. Springer.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Cognitive, Linguistic, & Psychological Sciences at Brown University" Retrieved on 8 August 2017.
  2. ↑ "Pauline Jacobson's CV"
  3. ↑ Jacobson, Pauline. "Towards a Variable-Free Semantics", Linguistics and Philosophy, 1999. Retrieved on 8 August 2017.
  4. ↑ Jacobson, Pauline. "On the Quantificational Force of English Free Relatives", In Quantification in Natural Languages, 1995. ISBN 978-0792333524. Retrieved on 8 August 2017.
  5. ↑ Jacobson, Pauline. "Paycheck pronouns, Bach-Peters sentences, and variable-free semantics", Natural Language Semantics, 2000. Retrieved on 8 August 2017.
  6. ↑ Jacobson, Pauline. "Raising as Function Composition", Linguistics and Philosophy, 1990. Retrieved on 8 August 2017.
  7. ↑ Jacobson, Pauline. "The Nature of Syntactic Representation", 1982. Springer. ISBN 978-94-009-7707-5. Retrieved on 8 August 2017.
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