Beth Levin (/ləˈviːn/ lə-VEEN; born 1955) is an American linguist who is currently the William H. Bonsall Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University.
[1] Her research investigates the lexical semantics of verbs, particularly the representation of events and the kind of morphosyntactic devices that English and other languages use to express events and their participants.
She received her Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983[2] and then spent four years at the MIT Center for Cognitive Science, where she had major responsibility for the Lexicon Project.
[4] In 2008 Levin was named a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
[7] In 2019 she was named a fellow of Cognitive Science Society[8] Levin.
Measure of Change: The Adjectival Core of Degree Achievements.
Semantics and Pragmatics of Argument Alternations, Annual Review of Linguistics 1, 63-83.