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American linguist
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]
Partial bibliography
References
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"Faculty | Linguistics" . linguistics.stanford.edu . Retrieved 2023-05-27 .
^ Zaenen, Annie Else (1980).
Extraction Rules in Icelandic . Harvard University.
ISBN
978-0-8240-5443-4 .
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"Stanford Linguistics faculty" . stanford.edu . Stanford. Archived from
the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2012-05-07 .
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"History of Speech and Language Technology" . sarasinstitute.org . Saras Institute. Retrieved 2009-04-28 .
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"Annie Zaenen, Publication List Details" . en.scientificcommons.org . Scientific Commons. Retrieved 2009-04-28 .
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"Annie Zaenen" . scholar.google.com . Retrieved 2023-05-27 .
^ Zaenen, Annie (December 30, 2006).
"Mark-up Barking Up the Wrong Tree" . Computational Linguistics . 32 (4): 577–580.
doi :
10.1162/coli.2006.32.4.577 .
S2CID
10051962 .
^ 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.
ISBN
978-1-57586-663-5 .
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/9781575866628.shtml
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"Editorial Team, Linguistic Issues in Language Technology" . journals.colorado.edu . Retrieved 2023-05-27 .
^ Kimball, John P.; Philip J. Tedeschi, Annie Zaenen (1981).
Tense and Aspect . Academic Press. p. 301.
ISBN
978-0-12-613514-5 .
^ Joan Maling; Annie Zaenen (1990).
Modern Icelandic syntax . Joan Maling, Stephen R. Anderson, Annie Zaenen. Academic Press. p. 443.
ISBN
978-0-12-613524-4 .
^ Lori Levin; Malka Rappaport; Malka Rappaport Hovav; Annie Else Zaenen; Indiana University Linguistics Club (1983).
Papers in lexical-functional grammar . Indiana University Linguistics Club. p. 191.
^ Annie Else Zaenen; Harvard University; Indiana University Linguistics Club (1982).
Subjects and other subjects: proceedings of the Harvard Conference on the Representation of Grammatical Relations, December, 1981 . Indiana University Linguistics Club. p. 153.
^ Zaenen, Annie Else (1985).
Extraction rules in Icelandic (illustrated ed.). Garland Pub. p. 393.
ISBN
978-0-8240-5443-4 .
^ Zaenen, Annie (2007).
Architectures, Rules, and Preferences: Variations on Themes by Joan W. Bresnan (illustrated ed.). Center for the Study of Language and Inf. p. 554.
ISBN
978-1-57586-560-7 .
External links
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