Susan Rothstein
{{Short description|British-Israeli linguist (1958–2019)}}
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- Oxford University {{Small|(BA)}}
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology {{Small|(PhD)}}
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Susan Rothstein (20 August 1958–30 July 2019) was a British-Israeli linguist and Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She was a semanticist who was best known for her work on the semantics of aspect and the mass/count distinction.{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-xO8SC8AAAAJ&hl=en|title=Susan Rothstein - Google Scholar Citations|website=scholar.google.com|access-date=2019-08-15}}
Career
Rothstein earned her bachelor's degree with Honors in 1979 from the School of Philosophy and Modern Languages at Oxford University. She earned her PhD at MIT, where she studied Linguistics and Philosophy, completing a dissertation in 1983 on
From 1983 to 1985, Rothstein held a position as Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the College of William and Mary (US), before joining the Bar-Ilan University faculty with an Alon Fellowship in 1985.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Rothstein_Susan|title=Academy of Europe: Rothstein Susan|website=www.ae-info.org|access-date=2019-08-15}} At Bar-Ilan she was Professor of Theoretical Linguistics in the Department of English Literature and Linguistics{{Cite web|url=https://english.biu.ac.il/faculty/rothstein-susan/|title=Rothstein Susan {{!}} Department of English Literature and Linguistics {{!}} Bar-Ilan University|website=english.biu.ac.il|language=en|access-date=2019-08-15}} and a Fellow in the Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center.{{Cite web|url=https://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3134/|title=LINGUIST List 30.3134: All: Obituary: Susan Rothstein (1958-2019)|date=2019-08-15|website=The LINGUIST List|language=en|access-date=2019-08-15}}
From 1994 until her death, she was married to fellow linguist Fred Landman, with whom she had one daughter. They occasionally co-authored studies.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tau.ac.il/~landman/online-papers.html|title=Fred Landman Online papers (see Online Journals, papers 9, 10, 12)}}
Awards and distinctions
Awards and distinctions:{{Cite web|url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Rothstein_Susan|title=Academy of Europe: Rothstein Susan|website=www.ae-info.org|access-date=2019-08-15}}
- 1985 Alon (Israeli Government) Fellowship for outstanding new faculty{{Cite news|url=https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/GRAPEVINE-Combining-business-with-pleasure-413242|title=GRAPEVINE: Combining business with pleasure - Israel News - Jerusalem Post|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post | Jpost.com|access-date=2019-08-15}}
- 2013 Member of the Academia Europaea{{Cite web|url=https://www.acadeuro.org/attach/Acad_Main/Publications/Academia_Europaea_Annual_Activity_Reports_and_Annual_Accounts/Annrep%202013%20activities%20report%28signed%20and%20final%29.pdf|title=ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORT FOR THE PERIOD 2013|last=Academy of Europe|date=2013|website=Academy of Europe|access-date=}}
- 2014 Humboldt Research Award{{Cite web|url=https://www1.biu.ac.il/indexE.php?id=33&pt=20&pid=4&level=1&cPath=4&type=1&news=2466|title=Prof. Susan Rothstein Wins Humboldt Research Award {{!}} Bar Ilan University|website=www1.biu.ac.il|language=en|access-date=2019-08-15}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/pls/web/pub_auswahlergebnisse.main?p_lang=en&p_bereich=PUBL-HFP&p_pattern=&p_humboldt_nation=&p_address_country=&p_address_region=&p_address_city=&p_address_uni=&p_host_country=&p_host_region=&p_host_city=&p_host_uni=&p_order_by=F&p_page=6|title=Positive selection decisions since March 2013 Humboldt Research Award|publisher=Alexander von Humboldt Foundation|website=www.humboldt-foundation.de|access-date=2019-08-15}}
Selected publications
Susan Rothstein. 2004. The Syntactic Forms of Predication. In: Predicates and Their Subjects. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 74. Springer, Dordrecht.
Susan Rothstein. 2008. Structuring Events: A Study in the Semantics of Lexical Aspect. {{ISBN|9781405106672}}
Susan Rothstein. 2010. Counting and the mass/count distinction. Journal of Semantics 27, 343-397.
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