Anne C. Lobeck is an American

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

who specializes in syntactic theory and

applied linguistics Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of the academic fields related to applied linguistics are education, psychology, Communication stu ...

, with focus on linguistics and education. She is currently Professor of Linguistics at

Western Washington University Western Washington University (WWU or Western) is a public university in Bellingham, Washington, United States. The northernmost university in the contiguous United States, WWU was founded in 1893 as the state-funded New Whatcom Normal School, s ...

Career

Lobeck obtained a B.A. in French from Whitman College in 1983 and an M.A. in linguistics from the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast of the Uni ...

in 1979. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from the same institution in 1986 with a dissertation entitled "Syntactic Constraints on VP Ellipsis". Her subsequent work on ellipsis in natural languages has contributed to the understanding of the phenomena in English, French, and German. In 2006, Lobeck and Kristin Denham were the recipients of an NSF grant for their project "The Western Washington University Teaching Partnership Project: Improving Teacher Education through Partner Teaching". This project led to the publication of "''Linguistics at School: Language Awareness in Primary and Secondary Education"'' (co-edited with Denham) in 2010, a collection that emphasizes the importance of collaboration between linguists and educators to raise awareness of the workings of language. In 2021, Lobeck was inducted as a

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of the Linguistic Society of America.

Key publications

* Denham, K. & A. Lobeck. 2018. ''Why Study Linguistics''. London: Routledge. * Lobeck, A. & K. Denham. 2013. ''Navigating English Grammar: A Guide to Analyzing Real Language''. Boston, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. * Denham, K. & A. Lobeck (eds.). 2010. ''Linguistics at School: Language Awareness in Primary and Secondary Education''. New York: Cambridge University Press. * Denham, K. & A. Lobeck. 2010. ''Linguistics for Everyone''. Boston, MA: Cengage. * Denham, K. & A. Lobeck (eds.). 2005. ''Language in the Schools: Integrating Linguistics into K-12 Teaching''. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. * Lobeck, A. 2000. ''Discovering Grammar: An Introduction to English Sentence Structure''. New York: Oxford University Press. * Lobeck, A.1995. ''Ellipsis: Functional Heads, Licensing and Identification''. New York: Oxford University Press.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lobeck, Anne American women linguists University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences alumni Western Washington University faculty Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America 1957 births Living people