She has been an advisory editor for several linguistics journals or publishers and she serves on the usage committee for the American Heritage Dictionary.
She is a Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she was also a member of the Beckman Institute Cognitive Science Group.
[1][2] Green has served as a peer reviewer or advisory editor for journals including Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Law and Social Inquiry, and Discourse Processes and publishers including Academic Press.
[4] Green's research explores areas of pragmatics that show the effect of speaker intention on language interpretation, including word order effects of information structure,[5] discourse particles, and language applications to judicial contexts.
[7] Her book on natural language understanding was noted as admirably capturing the fact that “pragmatics is inherently interactive, that the central notions of the field... are properties of speakers and hearers, not of words or sentences.” [8]