Jeanette Gundel
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Jeanette Gundel | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 16, 1942 Kraków, Poland |
| Died | November 8, 2019 (aged 77) Minneapolis, Minnesota, US |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin (PhD) |
| Thesis | The Role of Topic and Comment in Linguistic Theory (1974) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguist |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | University of Minnesota |
Jeanette (Kohn) Gundel (July 16, 1942 – November 8, 2019) was an American linguist noted for her work on information structure and pragmatics.
Gundel received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin, in 1974. Her dissertation, "The Role of Topic and Comment in Linguistic Theory", was published in 1977 by the Indiana University Linguistics Club, and in 1988,[1] in the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics Series by Garland.[2]
After having taught at the Ohio State University (1974–1977) and the University of Hawaii at Manoa (1978–1980), Gundel joined the Department of Linguistics at the University of Minnesota in 1980 and became Full Professor there in 1992.[3][4] She was Head of the academic program in Linguistics from 1999 to 2016, and served as the Director of the Institute of Linguistics from 2010 to 2016. She served as the Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics from 1991 to 1997 and from 2001 to 2012.[5]
