TY - JOUR
AU - Sadock, Jerrold M.
AB - Ellen F. Prince, president of the Linguistic Society of America in 2008 and a major figure in the fields of discourse, pragmatics, and information structure, died peacefully in her home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 24, 2010, of lung cancer. She was sixty-six. At the time of her death, Ellen was Professor Emeritus (she would have eschewed the title ‘Emerita’) of Linguistics, with a secondary appointment in the De- partment of Computer and Information Science, at the University of Pennsylvania, where she had been a faculty member from 1974 until her retirement in 2005. Ellen was born Ellen Deanna Friedman on February 29, 1944, in the Flatbush neigh- borhood of Brooklyn, New York, the only child of Irving and Jeannette (née Rothkopf) Friedman. As a leap day baby, she enjoyed only sixteen birthdays in her sixty-six years, the last being on February 29, 2008, on which date friends gathered to celebrate her ‘Sweet Sixteen’. Growing up in Brooklyn, she attended Walt Whitman Junior High School for only two years, having skipped eighth grade, and Erasmus Hall High School for four years. In 1960, she enrolled in Brooklyn College, where she received a B.A. in French in 1964. Always interested 
TI - Ellen F. Prince
JF - Language
DA - 2012-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/linguistic-society-of-america/ellen-f-prince-Yz3HJ4Ygk4
SP - 866
EP - 872
VL - 87
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -