Barbara Hall Partee ( born Barbara Hall Partee ; born June 23, 1940 , Englewood , NJ ) is an American linguist , professor of linguistics and philosophy at the University of Massachusetts . One of the founders of modern formal semantics .
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| Date of Birth | June 23, 1940 (aged 79) |
| Place of Birth | Englewood , New Jersey , USA |
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| Occupation | linguist |
| Awards and prizes | Max Planck Award ( 1992 ) [d] [d] [d] |
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Member of the US National Academy of Sciences (1989) [1] .
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Biography
Education
- BA 1961 in Mathematics, Sworthmore College . Add. specialization in Russian and philosophy.
- Ph.D. 1965, MIT , linguistics. Add. specialization in mathematics. Title of dissertation: Subject and Object in Modern English . Academic Supervisor : Noam Chomsky
Work
- University of California, Los Angeles, Teaching 1965-1972, Linguistics, then also Philosophy.
- Joined UMass Amherst faculty in 1972. Professor since 1973, department head 1987-93. Emerita as of January 2004.
- Taught at 1966, 1974, 1987, 1989, and 1991 LSA Summer Institutes.
- Visiting Professorships at El Colegio de Mexico, Charles University, Prague, Moscow State University, Russian State Humanities University, University of Leipzig, University of Canterbury
- Board of Managers, Swarthmore College, 1990-2002.
Works
- Stockwell, RP, P. Schachter, and BH Partee, The Major Syntactic Structures of English. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972.
- Montague Grammar, edited, Academic Press, 1976.
- Subject and Object in Modern English, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1979
- Fundamentals of Mathematics for Linguists, Greylock Publishers, (and D. Reidel, Dordrecht), 1979.
- Properties, Types and Meaning. Vol. I: Foundational Issues; Vol. II: Semantic Issues, ed. G. Chierchia, B. Partee and R. Turner, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989.
- Partee, Barbara H., Alice ter Meulen and Robert Wall, Mathematical Methods in Linguistics, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990. Second printing, corrected first edition, 1993.
- Bach, Emmon, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer, and Barbara H. Partee, eds., Quantification in Natural Languages, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1995.
- Partee, Barbara H. and Petr Sgall, editors, Discourse and Meaning: Papers in Honor of Eva Hajičová. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 1996.
- Hajičová, Eva, Barbara Partee, and Petr Sgall, (1998) Topic-focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content. Dordrecht: Kluwer Publishers.
- Portner, Paul and Barbara H. Partee, eds. (2002) Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. pp. x + 486
- Browne, Wayles, Ji-Yung Kim, Barbara H. Partee, and Robert A. Rothstein, editors, (2003) Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics # 11: The Amherst Meeting 2002. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications. pp. xii + 568
- Partee, Barbara H. 2004. Compositionality in Formal Semantics: Selected Papers of Barbara Partee. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Pp. 344
- Kim, Ji-yung, Lander, Yury A. , and Partee, Barbara H. eds. (2004) Possessives and Beyond: Semantics and Syntax (UMOP 29). Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications. pp. ix + 439
- Kamp, Hans and Barbara H. Partee, eds. (2004). Context-Dependence in the Analysis of Linguistic Meaning. Series: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface, 11 Amsterdam: Elsevier. pp. 554
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Links
- Barbara Partee's website
- - Party, Barbara in LiveJournal