was received from MIT in 1983, and her dissertation was a detailed study of Warlpiri in the Lexical-Functional Grammar framework.
[3] She also helped to create the a digital archive of Aboriginal language material, which became ASEDA.
[4] This was during her time as a visiting fellow at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
She was Chief Investigator, with Gillian Wigglesworth and Patrick McConvell, in the Aboriginal Child Language Acquisition Projects, funded by ARC Discovery Grants (2004–2007, 2011–2015).
[5][6] In 2005, Simpson shared the Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute Inaugural Ken Hale Chair with Mary Laughren and David Nash.