Gillian Ramchand

Gillian Ramchand is a linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Tromsø, Norway.[1] Since 2017 she has been President of Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW).[2][3]

Biography

She grew up in Jamaica and Trinidad and received her PhD in linguistics from Stanford University in 1993.[4] She subsequently spent 10 years working at the University of Oxford as a lecturer in general linguistics before moving to Tromsø in 2004, where she became full professor two years later in 2006.[4][5]

Research

Her research focuses on the syntax-semantics interface, especially argument structure, and she has worked on a variety of languages including Scottish Gaelic, Bengali, and English.[3]

Selected publications
  • Ramchand, Gillian. 1997. Aspect and predication: The semantics of argument structure. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198236511
  • Adger, David, and Ramchand, Gillian. 2005. Merge and Move: Wh-dependencies revisited. Linguistic Inquiry 36(2), 161–193.
  • Ramchand, Gillian, and Reiss, Charles. 2007. The Oxford handbook of linguistic interfaces. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199247455
  • Ramchand, Gillian. 2008. Verb meaning and the lexicon: A first phase syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521842402
  • Ramchand, Gillian, and Svenonius, Peter. 2014. Deriving the functional hierarchy. Language Sciences 46, 152–174.
  • Ramchand, Gillian. 2018. Situations and syntactic structures: Rethinking auxiliaries and order in English. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262535038
gollark: How do you know what cardiac arrest is like exactly?
gollark: They shouldn't really beep.
gollark: Some are assigned to monitoring and stuff.
gollark: You can determine whether it is a bee by using your phone to communicate with it using the Bee Communication Protocol.
gollark: They mostly buzz, beeping is rare.

References
  1. "Ramchand, Gillian". Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  2. "GLOW Board". Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  3. "About - Gillian Ramchand". Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  4. "CV" (PDF). Retrieved 11 June 2020.
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