Gillian Ramchand
Gillian Ramchand | |
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Occupation | Linguist |
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Alma mater | Stanford University |
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Institutions | University of Tromsø |
Main interests | Syntax, Semantics, Argument structure |
Gillian Ramchand is a linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Tromsø, Norway.[1]
Biography
Ramchand grew up in Jamaica and Trinidad and received her PhD in linguistics from Stanford University in 1994, with a dissertation entitled, "Aspect and Argument Structure in Modern Scottish Gaelic."[2] She subsequently spent 10 years working at the University of Oxford as a lecturer in general linguistics before moving to Tromsø in 2004, where she became full professor two years later in 2006.[3][4]
Her widely cited research[5] focuses on the syntax-semantics interface, especially argument structure.[1] She has worked on a variety of languages, including Scottish Gaelic, Bengali, and English.[6]
Honors and distinctions
Since 2017 Ramchand has been President of Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW).[7][6]
Selected publications
- Ramchand, Gillian. 1997. Aspect and predication: The semantics of argument structure. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198236511
- Adger, David, and Ramchand, Gillian. 2005. Merge and Move: Wh-dependencies revisited. Linguistic Inquiry 36(2), 161–193.
- Ramchand, Gillian, and Reiss, Charles. 2007. The Oxford handbook of linguistic interfaces. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199247455
- Ramchand, Gillian. 2008. Verb meaning and the lexicon: A first phase syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521842402
- Ramchand, Gillian, and Svenonius, Peter. 2014. Deriving the functional hierarchy. Language Sciences 46, 152–174.
- Ramchand, Gillian. 2018. Situations and syntactic structures: Rethinking auxiliaries and order in English. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262535038
References
- ^ "Ramchand, Gillian". Retrieved 11 June 2020.
- ^ "Ph.D. Alumni | Linguistics". linguistics.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
- ^ "CV" (PDF). Retrieved 11 June 2020.
- ^ "Featured Linguist: Gillian Ramchand". Retrieved 11 June 2020.
- ^ "Gillian Ramchand". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
- ^ a b "About - Gillian Ramchand". Retrieved 11 June 2020.
- ^ "GLOW Board". Retrieved 11 June 2020.