Prince went to high school in
Fairfax, Virginia, got his BA with "great distinction" from
McGill University, and received his
PhD from
MIT in 1975. Before coming to Rutgers, he was a professor of linguistics at
Brandeis University and at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 2010 Prince was named the Rutgers Board of Governors Professor of Linguistics.[1] He became an Emeritus Professor at Rutgers in 2015 upon his retirement. The "Short 'schrift for Alan Prince" was assembled for this occasion, and presented to him at the 2015 Rutgers Typology Workshop.[2]
Prince is married to
Jane Grimshaw,[3] who is a Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at Rutgers University.[4]
McCarthy, John J.; Prince, Alan (1995).
"Faithfulness and reduplicative identity". Papers in Optimality Theory. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics. 18: 249–384.