Miriam Butt

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Miriam Butt

Miriam Jessica Butt [ bʌt ] (born February 27, 1966 in Ta'if ) is a German linguist and professor of computational linguistics at the University of Konstanz .

Career

Butt studied linguistics and computer science at Wellesley College from 1984 to 1987 . From 1991 to 1993 she studied linguistics at Stanford University and received her doctorate there in 1993 with a dissertation on complex predicates. This was followed by positions at the University of Tübingen , at the Institute for Natural Language Processing at the University of Stuttgart and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology before she took up her current position at the University of Konstanz.

Butt mainly researches the syntax, morphology, semantics and phonology of Urdu and other South Asian languages, as well as the architecture of grammar and interface issues. As a computational linguist, she is involved in the ParGram project in the development of parallel grammars and also deals with the visualization of linguistic data.

In 2019 Butt was elected to the Academia Europaea .

Publications (monographs)

  • M. Butt: Theories of Case. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2006.
  • M. Butt, TH King, M.-E. Niño, F. Segond: A Grammar Writer's Cookbook. CSLI Publications, Stanford 1999.
  • M. Butt: The Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu. CSLI Publications, Stanford 1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Butt, Miriam Jessica. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. De Gruyter. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
  2. ↑ Miriam Butt - Curriculum Vitae .
  3. ↑ Miriam Butt - Current Research .
  4. ^ Member of the Academia Europaea .
personal data
SURNAME Butt, Miriam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Butt, Miriam Jessica (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Ta'if