Mary Dalrymple

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Mary Dalrymple FBA (born 9 March 1954) is a British linguist who is 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.

Early life and education[edit]

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.

Career[edit]

Dalrymple has also been associated with CSLI (Center for the Study of Language and Information) as a researcher.[citation needed] 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 Indonesian. She is one of the prime architects of Glue Semantics[1] and works primarily within Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), a linguistic theory for which she has written a textbook Lexical Functional Grammar[2] and to which she has contributed a theory of anaphoric binding.[3] Her most recent major work has dealt with the relationship between case marking, information structure (topic, focus) and semantics.[4]

Honors and awards[edit]

Dalrymple was inducted as a fellow of the British Academy in 2013.[5] She was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea in 2018.[6]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Dalrymple, Mary; Kaplan, Ronald M. (2000). "Feature Indeterminacy and Feature Resolution". Language. 76 (4): 759–798.
  • Dalrymple, Mary; Nikolaeva, Irina (2006). "Syntax of natural and accidental coordination: Evidence from agreement". Language. 82 (4): 824–849.
  • Dalrymple, Mary; Kaplan, Ronald M.; King, Tracy Holloway (2008). "The Absence of Traces: Evidence from Weak Crossover". In Zaenen, Annie Else (ed.). Architectures, Rules, and Preferences: Variations on Themes. CSLI Publications. pp. 85–102.
  • Dalrymple, Mary; King, Tracy Holloway; Sadler, Louisa (January 28, 2009). "Indeterminacy by underspecification" (PDF). Journal of Linguistics. 45 (1). Cambridge University Press: 31–68. doi:10.1017/s0022226708005513. ISSN 0022-2267. S2CID 15689306.
  • Dalrymple, M. (2023). The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.10037797. ISBN 978-3961104246.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Dalrymple, Mary (ed.). 1999. Semantics and Syntax in Lexical Functional Grammar: The Resource Logic Approach. The MIT Press.
  2. ^ Dalrymple, Mary. 2001. Lexical Functional Grammar. Syntax and Semantics, volume 34. Academic Press.
  3. ^ Dalrymple, Mary. 1993. The Syntax of Anaphoric Binding. CSLI Lecture Notes, number 36. CSLI Publications.
  4. ^ Dalrymple, Mary and Irina Nikolaeva. 2011. Objects and Information Structure. Cambridge University Press.
  5. ^ "Professor Mary Dalrymple - British Academy". British Academy. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  6. ^ "Academia Europaea: Mary Dalrymple". Retrieved 28 October 2023.

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