Mary Dalrymple, Date of Birth

    

Mary Dalrymple

Professor of Linguistics

Date of Birth: 09-Mar-1954

Profession: linguist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Mary Dalrymple

  • Mary Dalrymple, FBA (born March 9, 1954) is a professor of syntax at Oxford University.
  • At Oxford, she is a fellow of Linacre College.
  • Prior to that she was a lecturer in linguistics at King's College London, a senior member of the research staff at the Palo Alto Research Center (formerly the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center) in the Natural Language Theory and Technology group and a computer scientist at SRI International.
  • She received her PhD in linguistics from Stanford University in 1990.
  • Her master's degree and bachelor's degree are from the University of Texas, Austin and Cornell College, respectively.
  • She has also been associated with CSLI (Center for the Study of Language and Information) as a researcher. Her research focus is on linguistics and computational linguistics and centers mainly on grammar development, syntax, semantics and the syntax-semantics interface.
  • She has worked on a broad range of languages, including English, Hindi, Marathi, Malagasy and Bahasa Indonesian.
  • She is one of the prime architects of Glue Semantics and works primarily within Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), a linguistic theory for which she has written a textbook Lexical Functional Grammar and to which she has contributed a theory of anaphoric binding.
  • Her most recent major work has dealt with the relationship between case marking, information structure (topic, focus) and semantics.Honors and awards: Mary Dalrymple was inducted as a fellow of the British Academy in 2013.

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