Miriam Butt (b. 1966) is Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics (Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft) at the

University of Konstanz The University of Konstanz () is a university in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its main campus was opened on the Gießberg in 1972 after being founded in 1966. The university is Germany's southernmost university and is ...

, where she leads the computational linguistics lab.

Education and research

Butt earned her doctorate in linguistics in 1993 at

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. She subsequently held research and teaching positions at the Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung at the

University of Stuttgart The University of Stuttgart () is a research university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized into 10 faculties. It is one of the oldest technical universities in Germany with programs in civil, mechanical, ind ...

University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) was a university based in the centre of the city of Manchester in England. It specialised in technical and scientific subjects and was a major centre for Research univer ...

and the

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before taking up her current position at the

. She is the author or editor of 11 books, including ''The Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu,'' the published version of her Stanford dissertation, and the ''Theories of Case'', a volume in the Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics series. She is best known for her theoretical linguistic work on complex predicates and on

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, and for her computational linguistic work in large-scale grammar development within the ParGram project. Her Pargram work in large-scale grammar development focuses on grammars for English, German, and Urdu (Butt et al. 1999). Butt is also one of the authors of ''6000 Kilometer Sehnsucht'', which describes her childhood in

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and

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Honors

Butt was elected to the

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in 2019. She was elected to AcademiaNet in 2012.

Selected publications

*Butt, Miriam & Aditi Lahiri. 2013. Diachronic pertinacity of light verbs. ''Lingua''. *Butt, Miriam & Tafseer Ahmed. 2011. The redevelopment of Indo-Aryan case systems from a lexical semantic perspective. ''Morphology'' 21(3): 545-572. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-010-9175-0 *Butt, Miriam. 2006. ''Theories of Case''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139164696 *Butt, Miriam, Tracy Holloway King, Maria-Eugenia Niño & Frederique Segond. 1999. ''A Grammar Writer's Cookbook''. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. *Butt, Miriam. 1995. ''The Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu''. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. .

References

External links

Miriam Butt's home page

ParGram project
{{DEFAULTSORT:Butt, Miriam German women academics Linguists from Pakistan Living people 1966 births Place of birth missing (living people) German people of Pakistani descent Members of Academia Europaea Linguists of Indo-Aryan languages Linguists of Urdu Linguists of Hindi Linguists of German Stanford University alumni Academic staff of the University of Konstanz