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 ISBN 0-12-613514-2[11]
• Modern Icelandic syntax ISBN 0-12-613524-X[12]
• Papers in lexical-functional grammar[13]
• Subjects and other subjects[14]
• Extraction rules in Icelandic ISBN 0-8240-5443-1[15]
• Architectures, rules, and preferences ISBN 1-57586-560-2[16]

References

1. "Faculty | Linguistics". linguistics.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
2. Zaenen, Annie Else (1980). Extraction Rules in Icelandic. Harvard University. ISBN 978-0-8240-5443-4.
3. "Stanford Linguistics faculty". stanford.edu. Stanford. Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
4. "History of Speech and Language Technology". sarasinstitute.org. Saras Institute. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
5. "Annie Zaenen, Publication List Details". en.scientificcommons.org. Scientific Commons. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
6. "Annie Zaenen". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
7. 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.
8. 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
9. "Editorial Team, Linguistic Issues in Language Technology". journals.colorado.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
10. "Annie Zaenen Honorary Doctorate". uni-konstanz.de. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
11. Kimball, John P.; Philip J. Tedeschi, Annie Zaenen (1981). Tense and Aspect. Academic Press. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-12-613514-5.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. Zaenen, Annie Else (1985). Extraction rules in Icelandic (illustrated ed.). Garland Pub. p. 393. ISBN 978-0-8240-5443-4.
16. 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

• Annie Zaenen official website