Her research contributed largely to pragmatic borrowing, syntax and discourse functioning, and centering theory.
Research on centering theory was one of her main focuses later in her career, which marries the three areas of information structure, psycholinguistics, and computer science to produce one theory on discourse.
[3] She is well known for her typology of information statuses in discourse, basing her conclusions on the study of naturally occurring data.
[3] Prince served as the President of the Linguistic Society of America in 2008.
[9] She was born on leap day of the month of February and was therefore able to celebrate only 16 birthdays in the 66 years she lived.