Irene Heim
Irene Heim | |
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| Born | Irene Roswitha Heim October 30, 1954 Munich, West Germany |
| Awards | Rolf Schock Prize, Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America, |
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| Alma mater | UMass Amherst |
| Thesis | The Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Barbara Partee |
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Irene Roswitha Heim (born October 30, 1954) is a German-American linguist and a leading specialist in semantics. She was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and UCLA before moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989, where she is professor emerita of linguistics. She served as head of the Linguistics Section of the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.