Pauline (Polly) Jacobson is a professor of Linguistics at Brown University, where she has been since 1977.

She is known for her work on variable free semantics, direct compositionality, and transderivationality.

[2] Her Thesis was entitled The Syntax of Crossing Coreference Sentences.

[3] She has regularly taught at the summer institutes of the Linguistic Society of America[4] and at the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI).

[5] In 2022, Jacobson was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.