Miriam Butt is Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics (Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft) at the

University of Konstanz The University of Konstanz (german: Universität Konstanz) is a university in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its main campus was opened on the Gießberg in 1972 after being founded in 1966. The university is Germany's ...

. She is best known for her theoretical linguistic work on complex predicates and on

grammatical case A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers ( determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals), which corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording. In various languages, nomin ...

, and for her computational linguistic work in large-scale grammar development within the ParGram project. Butt earned her doctorate in linguistics in 1993 at Stanford University. She subsequently held research and teaching positions at the Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung at the University of Stuttgart,

University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) was a university based in the centre of the city of Manchester in England. It specialised in technical and scientific subjects and was a major centre for research. On 1 Oct ...

and the

University of Tübingen The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (german: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; la, Universitas Eberhardina Carolina), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-W� ...

before taking up her current position at the

. She is the author or editor of 11 books, including ''The Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu'' and the ''Theories of Case'' volume in the Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics series. Her Pargram work in large-scale grammar development focuses on grammars for English, German, and Urdu. Butt is also one of the authors of ''6000 Kilometer Sehnsucht'', which describes her childhood in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

References

Selected additional publications

*Butt, Miriam & Aditi Lahiri. 2013. Diachronic pertinacity of light verbs. ''Lingua''. *Butt, Miriam & Tafseer Ahmed. 2011. The redevelopment of Indo-Aryan case systems from a lexical semantic perspective. ''Morphology'' 21(3): 545-572.

External links

Miriam Butt's home page

ParGram project
{{DEFAULTSORT:Butt, Miriam German women academics Linguists from Pakistan Living people 1966 births Place of birth missing (living people) German people of Pakistani descent Members of Academia Europaea Linguists of Indo-Aryan languages Linguists of Urdu Linguists of Hindi Linguists of German