Gillian Ramchand

Gillian Ramchand is a linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Since 2017 she has been President of Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW).
Biography.
She grew up in Jamaica and Trinidad and received her PhD in linguistics from Stanford University in 1993. She subsequently spent 10 years working at the University of Oxford as a lecturer in general linguistics before moving to Tromsø in 2004, where she became full professor two years later in 2006.
Research.
Her research focuses on the syntax-semantics interface, especially argument structure, and she has worked on a variety of languages including Scottish Gaelic, Bengali, and English.