Ellen Prince is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania and received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974. Her main interests include the discourse functions of syntactic form, language contact phenomena, and Yiddish. She has worked on, inter alia, focus-presupposition constructions (Language 1978, BLS-7 1981, J. of Prag. 1985, CLS 22 Parasession 1986, among others); Yiddish wh-clauses (ESCOL '88), relative clauses (BLS-16 1990, Guy, Feagan, et al. 1997), postposed subjects (Goldberg, Herzog, et al. 1993), Subject Prodrop (Bosch & van der Sandt 1998), and impersonal pronouns (CLS 38, 2001); given/new information (Cole 1981, Thompson & Mann 1992); pragmatic borrowing (J. of Prag. 1988, Schmid, Austin, & Stein 1998, Smith & Veenstra 2001); and Centering Theory (Walker, Joshi, & Prince 1998).

Ellen Prince is a Forum Lecturer at the 2005 LSA Institute.