Irene Heim

Irene Roswitha Heim (born in Munich, Germany, on October 30, 1954) is a 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.

Irene Heim
Born
Munich, Germany
AwardsFellow of the Linguistic Society of America
Academic background
Alma materUMass Amherst
ThesisThe Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases (1982)
Doctoral advisorBarbara Partee
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