Jane Grimshaw

Grimshaw received her B.A. in anthropology and linguistics from University College London in 1973, and her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1977.{{cite web|title=Jane Grimshaw|url=https://sites.google.com/site/janegrimshaw/|website=Rutgers University|access-date=10 January 2016}}{{Cite web|title=Alumni {{!}} UMass Linguistics|url=https://blogs.umass.edu/linguist/alumni/|access-date=2021-11-04|language=en-US}}

Grimshaw was on the faculty of Linguistics at Brandeis University from 1977 to 1992. There she worked closely with Ray Jackendoff, with whom she was a co-principal investigator on several projects.{{cite web|title=Ray Jackendoff|url=https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/jackendoff/cv15-16.pdf|website=Tufts University|access-date=10 January 2016}}

In 1992, she joined the faculty of Linguistics at Rutgers. She is a member of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS), and was the acting co-director from 2011 to 2012.

She taught at two Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Summer Institutes: University of California, Santa Cruz (1991) and University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (1999).{{Cite web|title = Past Linguistic Institutes {{!}} Linguistic Society of America|url = http://www.linguisticsociety.org/meetings-institutes/institutes/past|website = www.linguisticsociety.org|access-date = 2016-01-10}}

She [http://www.linguisticsociety.org/sites/default/files/committee%20members.pdf served on the Executive Committee] of the Linguistic Society of America from 1996 to 1998.{{Cite web|title = Executive Committee (1925 - 2015) {{!}} Linguistic Society of America|url = http://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/executive-committee-1925-2014|website = www.linguisticsociety.org|access-date = 2016-01-14}}

Grimshaw is married to linguist Alan Prince.{{cite web|last1=Grimshaw|first1=Jane|title=Retirement = time|url=https://princeshortschrift.wordpress.com/family-friends/retirement-time/|website=Short ’schrift for Alan Prince|access-date=10 January 2016}}

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• {{cite book|last1=Grimshaw|first1=Jane B.|title=English wh-constructions and the theory of grammar|date=1985|publisher=Garland Pub.|location=New York|isbn=0824054482|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000626579}}
• {{cite book|last1=Grimshaw|first1=Jane|title=Argument structure|date=1990|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge, Mass.|isbn=9780262570909|edition=1st|url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/argument-structure}}
• {{cite book|editor-last1=Coopmans|editor-first1=Peter|editor-last2=Everaert|editor-first2=Martin|editor-last3=Grimshaw|editor-first3=Jane|title=Lexical specification and insertion|date=2000|publisher=John Benjamins Publisher|location=Amsterdam|isbn=9789027299581|url=https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/cilt.197.07gri}}
• {{cite book|editor-last1=Legendre|editor-first1=Géraldine|editor1-link= Géraldine Legendre |editor-last2=Grimshaw|editor-first2=Jane|editor-last3=Vikner|editor-first3=Sten|title=Optimality-theoretic syntax|date=2001|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=9780262621380|url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/optimality-theoretic-syntax}}
• {{cite book|last1=Grimshaw|first1=Jane|title=Words and structure|date=2005|publisher=CSLI (Center for the Study of Language and Information)|location=Stanford, Calif.|isbn=9781575864228|edition=2nd|url=http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/W/bo3626523.html}}
• {{cite book|editor-last1=Zaenen|editor-first1=Annie|editor-last2=Simpson|editor-first2=Jane|editor-last3=King|editor-first3=Tracy Holloway|editor-last4=Grimshaw|editor-first4=Jane|editor-last5=Maling|editor-first5=Joan|editor-last6=Manning|editor-first6=Christopher|title=Architectures, rules, and preferences: variations on themes by Joan W. Bresnan|date=2007|publisher=CSLI Publications, Center for the Study of Language and Information|location=Stanford, Calif.|isbn=9781575865607|url=http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/A/bo5926545.html}}
• Selected Papers in Optimality Theory:
• Projection, heads, and optimality (ROA 68){{Cite web|title =Projection, heads and optimality|url = http://roa.rutgers.edu/article/view/69|website = roa.rutgers.edu|access-date = 2016-01-10}}
• The best clitic: Constraint conflict in morphosyntax (ROA 250){{Cite web|title = The best clitic|url = http://roa.rutgers.edu/article/view/260|website = roa.rutgers.edu|access-date = 2016-01-10}}
• Optimal clitic positions and the lexicon in romance clitic systems (ROA 374){{Cite web|title = Optimal clitic positions and the lexicon in romance clitic systems|url = http://roa.rutgers.edu/article/view/384|website = roa.rutgers.edu|access-date = 2016-01-10}}
• Economy of structure in OT (ROA 434){{Cite web|title = Economy of structure in OT|url = http://roa.rutgers.edu/article/view/444|website = roa.rutgers.edu|access-date = 2016-01-10}}
• Chains as unfaithful optima (ROA 844.04){{Cite web|title = Chains as unfaithful optima|url = http://roa.rutgers.edu/article/view/858|website = roa.rutgers.edu|access-date = 2016-01-10}}
• Location specific constraints in matrix and subordinate clauses (with supplementary materials) (ROA 857, 1201){{Cite web|title = Location specific constraints in metric and subordinate clauses|url = http://roa.rutgers.edu/article/view/880|website = roa.rutgers.edu|access-date = 2016-01-10}}
• Last resorts and grammaticality (ROA 892.02), in Optimality Theory and Minimalism: A Possible Convergence, Broekhuis, Hans, and Vogel, Ralf, eds.{{Cite web|title = Last resorts and grammaticality|url = http://roa.rutgers.edu/article/view/916|website = roa.rutgers.edu|access-date = 2016-01-10}}{{Cite web|title = Optimality Theory and Minimalism: A Possible Convergence?|url = https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/41066/|website = rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu|access-date = 2016-01-10}}
• Last resorts: A typology of do-support (with supplementary materials) (ROA 1111, 1127){{Cite web|title = Last resorts|url = http://roa.rutgers.edu/article/view/1141|website = roa.rutgers.edu|access-date = 2016-01-10}}{{Cite web|title = Supplementary Materials|url = http://roa.rutgers.edu/article/view/1157|website = roa.rutgers.edu|access-date = 2016-01-10}}
• Linguistic and cognitive explanation in Optimality Theory, with Bruce Tesar and Alan Prince. in {{Cite book|title = What is Cognitive Science?|last = Lepore|first = Ernest|publisher = Blackwell|year = 1999|last2 = Pylyshyn|first2 = Zenon}}

• Sloan Post-doctoral Fellowship, Center for Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1979–80)
• American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship (1982–83){{Cite web|title=Jane B. Grimshaw F'82|website = ACLS American Council of Learned Societies|url = https://www.acls.org/research/fellow.aspx?cid=5a279874-eea4-db11-8d10-000c2903e717|access-date = 2016-01-08}}
• Bernstein Faculty Fellowship, Brandeis University (1984–85){{cite journal|last1=Grimshaw|first1=Jane|last2=Mester|first2=Armin|title=Light Verbs and θ-Marking|journal=Linguistic Inquiry|date=1988|volume=19|issue=2|pages=205–232|jstor=4178587}}
• Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (2000-2001){{Cite web|title = Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences|url = https://casbs.stanford.edu|website = casbs.stanford.edu|access-date = 2016-01-08}}

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