Linguist
Gillian Ramchand (born 1965) is a linguist who specializes in syntax, semantics, and the syntax-semantics interface. As of 2024, she is Professor of Syntax and Semantics at Magdalen College, University of Oxford.[1][2]
Biography
Ramchand grew up in Jamaica and Trinidad and received her PhD in linguistics from Stanford University in 1994, with a dissertation entitled, "Aspect and Argument Structure in Modern Scottish Gaelic."[3] 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] In 2024, she returned to Oxford as Professor of Syntax and Semantics.[1]
Her widely cited research[6] focuses on the syntax-semantics interface, especially argument structure.[1] She has worked on a variety of languages, including Scottish Gaelic, Bengali, and English.[7]
Honors and distinctions
Ramchand was Chairperson of Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) from 2017-2022.[8][7]
In 2018 Ramchand was elected to the Academy of Europe.[9]
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
References
- ^ a b "Gillian Ramchand appointed Professor of Syntax and Semantics". Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ "Ramchand, Gillian". Retrieved 11 June 2020.
- ^ "Ph.D. Alumni | Linguistics". linguistics.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
- ^ "CV" (PDF). Retrieved 11 June 2020.
- ^ "Featured Linguist: Gillian Ramchand". Archived from the original on March 24, 2017. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
- ^ "Gillian Ramchand". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
- ^ a b "About - Gillian Ramchand". 8 August 2017. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
- ^ "GLOW Board". 27 November 2013. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
- ^ "Academy of Europe: Ramchand Gillian". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2023-02-18.
