Carlota Smith (May 21, 1934, New York City-May 24, 2007, Austin, Texas) was an American linguist.
In 1969, she joined the faculty of the Department of Linguistics at University of Texas at Austin, where she served for the remainder of her life.
[2] During her long career, she made important contributions to three areas of linguistic research.
[3] Her early work examined English syntax and child language acquisition.
She wrote a number of papers and a widely cited book (Smith 1991) on grammatical aspect.