Pauline Jacobson

Pauline (Polly) Jacobson
Born (1947-07-09) 9 July 1947
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
FieldsSemantics & Categorial Grammar syntax
InstitutionsBrown University

Pauline (Polly) Jacobson (born 9 July 1947) is a linguist, semantician, and professor of Linguistics at Brown University, where she has been since 1977. She is known for her work on variable free semantics, direct compositionality, and transderivationality.