Alan Prince
{{short description|American linguist}}
{{for|the Canadian civil servant and scientist|Alan Prince (civil servant)}}
Alan Sanford Prince (born 1946) is a Board of Governors Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Prince, along with Paul Smolensky, developed Optimality Theory, which was originally applied to phonology, but has been extended to other areas of linguistics such as syntax and semantics.
Biography
Prince went to high school in Fairfax, Virginia, got his BA with "great distinction" from McGill University, and received his PhD from MIT in 1975. Before coming to Rutgers, he was a professor of linguistics at Brandeis University and at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 2010 Prince was named the Rutgers Board of Governors Professor of Linguistics.[http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2010/12/alan-prince-named-ru-20101214 Alan Prince Named Rutgers Board of Governors Professor] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120812042947/http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2010/12/alan-prince-named-ru-20101214 |date=2012-08-12 }}, News-release, Rutgers University, December 14, 2010 He became an Emeritus Professor at Rutgers in 2015 upon his retirement. The "Short 'schrift for Alan Prince" was assembled for this occasion, and presented to him at the 2015 Rutgers Typology Workshop.{{cite web | url=http://ling.rutgers.edu/general-mainmenu-178/directions-mainmenu-180/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=170&Itemid=314 | title=Past Conferences and Workshops }}
Prince is married to Jane Grimshaw,{{cite web|last1=Grimshaw|first1=Jane|title=Retirement = time|url=https://princeshortschrift.wordpress.com/family-friends/retirement-time/|website=Short ’schrift for Alan Prince|date=28 May 2015 |accessdate=10 January 2016}} who is a Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at Rutgers University.{{cite web | url=http://ling.rutgers.edu/people-mainmenu-137/faculty-mainmenu-211 | title=Faculty }}
Awards
In 1998, Prince was named a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.[http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/alan-prince/ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation ]
Key Publications
- {{Cite journal |last1=Liberman |first1=Mark |last2=Prince |first2=Alan |year=1977 |title=On stress and linguistic rhythm |journal=Linguistic Inquiry |volume=8 |pages=249–336 |number=2 |jstor=4177987}}
- {{Cite book |last1=McCarthy |first1=John J. |url=https://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/12/ |title=Yearbook of Morphology 1993 |last2=Prince |first2=Alan |publisher=Springer |year=1993 |isbn=978-94-017-3712-8 |editor-last=Booij |editor-first=G. |pages=79–153 |chapter=Generalized alignment |doi=10.1007/978-94-017-3712-8_4 |editor-last2=Van Marle |editor-first2=J.}}
- {{Cite journal |last1=McCarthy |first1=John J. |url=https://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/10/ |title=Faithfulness and reduplicative identity |last2=Prince |first2=Alan |journal=Papers in Optimality Theory |year=1995 |series=University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics |volume=18|pages=249–384 }}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Pinker |first1=Steven |author-link=Steven Pinker |last2=Prince |first2=Alan |date=March 1988 |title=On language and connectionism: Analysis of a parallel distributed processing model of language acquisition |journal=Cognition |volume=28 |issue=1–2 |pages=73–193 |doi=10.1016/0010-0277(88)90032-7|pmid=2450717 |s2cid=12217058 }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Prince |first=Alan S. |year=1983 |title=Relating to the grid |journal=Linguistic Inquiry |volume=14 |pages=19–100 |jstor=4178311 |number=1}}
- {{Cite book |last1=Prince |first1=Alan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JGBrYc-eJpMC |title=Optimality Theory: Constraint interaction in generative grammar |last2=Smolensky |first2=Paul |publisher=Wiley |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-470-75939-4 |orig-year=1993}}
References
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External links
- [http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/~prince/ Homepage at Rutgers]
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Category:Phonologists from the United States
Category:People from Fairfax, Virginia
Category:Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society
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