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Jane Barbara Grimshaw (born 1951) is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She is known for her contributions to the areas of Syntax, Optimality theory, Language acquisition, and Lexical representation. She and Alan Prince are considered to be at the center of an "outstanding group of linguists" working on Optimality Theory.
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Early life and education
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.
Career
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.
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 2011-2012. 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). She served on the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society of America from 1996-1998.
Personal life
Grimshaw is married to Alan Prince.