Andrea Sims
Andrea D. Sims | |
|---|---|
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | The Ohio State University (PhD) |
| Brian D. Joseph | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguistics |
Sub-discipline | Morphology, Slavic Linguistics |
| Website | OSU faculty page |
Andrea D. Sims is a linguist and professor in the Department of Linguistics at The Ohio State University (OSU). She researches morphological theory, especially inflection, focusing primarily on the Slavic languages.[1]
Biography
[edit]Sims earned her PhD in linguistics at The Ohio State University in 2006 with a dissertation entitled, "Minding the gaps: Inflectional defectiveness in a paradigmatic theory".[2][3]
Sims worked at Northwestern University as a postdoctoral fellow from 2006 until 2008, before starting at Ohio State in 2008 as an assistant professor, and she was promoted to the position of Professor in 2024.[2][4]
Awards and honors
[edit]Sims has received major grant funding from the National Science Foundation for her academic work, most recently for the project Neural discovery of abstract inflectional structure (2022–2026).[5]
In 2025, Sims was elected as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.[6]
Sims serves as a co-Editor of the journal Word Structure.[7]
Selected publications
[edit]- Haspelmath, Martin; Sims, Andrea D. (28 October 2013). Understanding Morphology. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203776506. ISBN 978-1-4441-1711-0. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
- Sims, Andrea D. (2015). Inflectional Defectiveness | Cambridge Studies in Linguistics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-04584-2. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
- Andrea D. Sims. 2023. Defectiveness. In The Wiley Blackwell companion to morphology, edited by Peter Ackema, Sabrina Bendjaballah, Eulàlia Bonet, and Antonio Fábregas. Wiley Blackwell.
- Sara Court, Andrea D. Sims and Micha Elsner. 2023. Analogy in contact: Modeling Maltese plural inflection. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 6: 35–46.
- Mark Aronoff and Andrea D. Sims. 2023. The relational nature of morphology. In Linguistic morphology in the mind and brain, edited by Davide Crepaldi, 7-25. London: Routledge.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Andrea Sims | Department of Linguistics". linguistics.osu.edu. The Ohio State University. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
- 1 2 "Andrea D. Sims Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). The Ohio State University. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
- ↑ "Department of Linguistics Alumni Directory". www.ling.ohio-state.edu. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
- ↑ "Promotion and Tenure Approvals 2024 | Office of Academic Affairs". oaa.osu.edu. The Ohio State University. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
- ↑ National Science Foundation (2022). "NSF Award 2217554: Neural discovery of abstract inflectional structure". Retrieved 2025-03-07.
- ↑ "Fellows". Linguistic Society of America. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
- ↑ "Word Structure". Journals. Edinburgh University Press. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
External links
[edit]- Faculty page at Ohio State. https://linguistics.osu.edu/people/sims.120
- Andrea Sims publications indexed by Google Scholar
