Mary Dalrymple, FBA (born March 9, 1954) is a professor of

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. At Oxford, she is a fellow of

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. Prior to that she was a lecturer in linguistics at

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, a senior member of the research staff at the

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(formerly the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center) in the Natural Language Theory and Technology group and a computer scientist at

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. She received her PhD in linguistics from

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in 1990. Her master's degree and bachelor's degree are from the

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and

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, respectively. She has also been associated with CSLI (

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) as a researcher. Her research focus is on linguistics and

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and centers mainly on grammar development, syntax, semantics and the syntax-semantics interface. She has worked on a broad range of languages, including English, Hindi, Marathi, Malagasy and Indonesian. She is one of the prime architects of Glue Semantics and works primarily within Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), a linguistic theory for which she has written a textbook ''Lexical Functional Grammar'' and to which she has contributed a theory of anaphoric binding. Her most recent major work has dealt with the relationship between case marking,

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(topic, focus) and semantics. Honors and awards: Mary Dalrymple was inducted as a fellow of the

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in 2013.

References

Selected additional publications

* * Dalrymple, Mary, Ronald M. Kaplan, and Tracy Holloway King. 2008. The Absence of Traces: Evidence from Weak Crossover. In Architectures, Rules, and Preferences: Variations on Themes by Joan W. Bresnan, ed. Annie Zaenen, Jane Simpson, Tracy Holloway King, Jane Grimshaw, Joan Maling, and Chris Manning, pp. 85–102. CSLI Publications, Stanford. * Dalrymple, Mary and Irina Nikolaeva. 2006. Syntax of natural and accidental coordination: Evidence from agreement. Language 82(4), 824-849. * Dalrymple, Mary and Ronald M. Kaplan. 2000. Feature Indeterminacy and Feature Resolution. Language 76(4), 759-798.

External links

Mary Dalrymple's home page

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