Susan Rothstein

Susan Rothstein (born 20 August 1958, London, died 30 July 2019, Tel Aviv) was a British-Israeli linguist and Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She was a semanticist who was best known for her work on the semantics of aspect and the mass/count distinction.[1]

Susan Rothstein
Born(1958-08-20)20 August 1958
London, United Kingdom
Died30 July 2019(2019-07-30) (aged 60)
Tel Aviv, Israel
Spouse(s)Fred Landman
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisThe Syntactic Forms of Predication (1983)
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-disciplineSemantics
InstitutionsBar-Ilan University

Career

Rothstein earned her bachelor's degree with Honors in 1979 from the School of Philosophy and Modern Languages at Oxford University. She earned her PhD at MIT, where she studied Linguistics and Philosophy, completing a dissertation in 1983 on ''The Syntactic Forms of Predication''[2] which was published by the Indiana University Linguistics Club.[3]

From 1983 to 1985, Rothstein held a position as Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the College of William and Mary (US), before joining the Bar-Ilan University faculty with an Alon Fellowship in 1985.[4] At Bar-Ilan she was Professor of Theoretical Linguistics in the Department of English Literature and Linguistics[5] and a Fellow in the Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center.[6]

From 1994 until her death, she was married to fellow linguist Fred Landman, with whom she had one daughter. They occasionally co-authored studies.[7]

Awards and distinctions

Awards and distinctions:[8]

Selected publications

Susan Rothstein. 2004. The Syntactic Forms of Predication. In: Predicates and Their Subjects. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 74. Springer, Dordrecht.

Susan Rothstein. 2008. Structuring Events: A Study in the Semantics of Lexical Aspect. ISBN 9781405106672

Susan Rothstein. 2010. Counting and the mass/count distinction. Journal of Semantics 27, 343-397.

References
  1. "Susan Rothstein - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  2. "Alumni and their Dissertations – MIT Linguistics". linguistics.mit.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  3. Rothstein, Susan Deborah (1985). "The syntactic forms of predication". lib.ugent.be. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  4. "Academy of Europe: Rothstein Susan". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  5. "Rothstein Susan | Department of English Literature and Linguistics | Bar-Ilan University". english.biu.ac.il. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  6. "LINGUIST List 30.3134: All: Obituary: Susan Rothstein (1958-2019)". The LINGUIST List. 2019-08-15. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  7. "Fred Landman Online papers (see Online Journals, papers 9, 10, 12)".
  8. "Academy of Europe: Rothstein Susan". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  9. "GRAPEVINE: Combining business with pleasure - Israel News - Jerusalem Post". www.jpost.com. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  10. Academy of Europe (2013). "ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORT FOR THE PERIOD 2013" (PDF). Academy of Europe.
  11. "Prof. Susan Rothstein Wins Humboldt Research Award | Bar Ilan University". www1.biu.ac.il. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  12. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. "Positive selection decisions since March 2013 Humboldt Research Award". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
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