Gillian Ramchand

Gillian Ramchand
Gillian Ramchand
Occupation	Linguist
Academic background
Alma mater	Stanford University
Academic work
Institutions	University of Tromsø
Main interests	Syntax, Semantics, Argument structure

Gillian Ramchand (born 1965) is a linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Tromsø, Norway.^[1]

Biography[edit]

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."^[2] 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.^[3]^[4]

Her widely cited research^[5] focuses on the syntax-semantics interface, especially argument structure.[1] She has worked on a variety of languages, including Scottish Gaelic, Bengali, and English.^[6]

Ramchand was Chairperson of Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) from 2017-2022.^[7]^[6]

In 2018 Ramchand was elected to the Academy of Europe.^[8]

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

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