Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli

{{Short description|British linguist}}

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{{BLP sources|date=December 2021}}

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| education = University College London (PhD)

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| thesis_title = Functional Categories and Maturation: The Prefunctional Stage of Language Acquisition{{Cite thesis|title=Functional categories and maturation: The prefunctional stage of language acquisition|url=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10121069/|publisher=University of London|date=1992|degree=Ph.D.|first=Ianthi-Maria|last=Tsimpli}}

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| doctoral_advisor = Neil Smith

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| workplaces =Cambridge University

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Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli (born 2 February 1964) is a Greek linguist and Chair of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge.{{cite web |title=Ianthi Maria Tsimpli |url=https://www.enl.auth.gr/staff/tsimpli.htm |website=www.enl.auth.gr}}

She is an associate editor of the journal Glossa and was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2021.{{Cite web|date=2021-07-23|title=The British Academy elects 84 new Fellows recognising outstanding achievement in the humanities and social sciences|url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-british-academy-elects-84-new-fellows-recognising-outstanding-achievement-in-the-humanities-and-social-sciences/|access-date=2022-01-22|website=The British Academy|language=en}}

Books

  • The Mind of a Savant: Language Learning and Modularity (1995, Blackwell)

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