Jane Barbara Grimshaw (born 1951) is a Distinguished Professor [emerita] in the Department of Linguistics at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
[1] She is known for her contributions to the areas of syntax, optimality theory, language acquisition, and lexical representation.
There she worked closely with Ray Jackendoff, with whom she was a co-principal investigator on several projects.
She is a member of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS), and was the acting co-director from 2011 to 2012.
[3][6] She served on the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society of America from 1996 to 1998.