Mary Dalrymple FBA (born 9 March 1954) is a British linguist who is professor of syntax at Oxford University.
Prior to that she was a lecturer in linguistics at King's College London, a senior member of the research staff at the Palo Alto Research Center (formerly the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center) in the Natural Language Theory and Technology group and a computer scientist at SRI International.
She has worked on a broad range of languages, including English, Hindi, Marathi, Malagasy and Indonesian.
She is one of the prime architects of Glue Semantics[1] and works primarily within Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), a linguistic theory for which she has written a textbook Lexical Functional Grammar[2] and to which she has contributed a theory of anaphoric binding.
[3] Her most recent major work has dealt with the relationship between case marking, information structure (topic, focus) and semantics.