Annie Else Zaenen (b. 1941, Belgium) is an adjunct professor of linguistics at

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, California, United States, and the main editor of the online journal ''Linguistic Issues in Language Technology''.

Career

Zaenen obtained her

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with her doctoral thesis ''Extraction Rules in Icelandic'' in 1980. After a

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, she taught

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at the

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, and Harvard, before joining PARC and Stanford. During the ‘90s, she was the manager of the Natural Language group of th
Xerox Research Centre Europe
in

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. After Zaenen retired from PARC in 2011, she joined a research group o
Language and Natural Reasoning
at CSLI working on the linguistic encoding of temporal and spatial information, local textual inferences and natural logic. She has worked on both the syntax of

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and on the development of Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), with excursions into lexical semantics. Her contributions to the theory of Lexical Functional Grammar are in the development of notions such as long-distance dependencies, functional uncertainty and the difference between subsumption and equality. She had 27 scientific publications between 1996 and 2008. Zaenen is also known for her sharp commentary on research trends in Computational Linguistics. In 2013, Zaenen was honored by a

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, edited by Tracy Holloway King and

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Partial bibliography

* ''Tense and aspect'' * ''Modern Icelandic syntax'' * ''Papers in lexical-functional grammar'' * ''Subjects and other subjects'' * ''Extraction rules in Icelandic'' * ''Architectures, rules, and preferences''

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Zaenen, Annie 1941 births Living people Linguists from the United States Women linguists Syntacticians Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Scientists at PARC (company)