Andrea Sims

Andrea D. Sims is a linguist and professor in the Department of Linguistics at The Ohio State University (OSU). She researches morphological theory, especially inflection, focusing primarily on the Slavic languages.^[1]

Andrea D. Sims
Academic background
Alma mater	The Ohio State University (PhD)
Doctoral advisor	Brian D. Joseph
Academic work
Discipline	Linguistics
Sub-discipline	Morphology, Slavic Linguistics
Website	OSU faculty page

Biography

Sims earned her PhD in linguistics at The Ohio State University in 2006 with a dissertation entitled, "Minding the gaps: Inflectional defectiveness in a paradigmatic theory".^[2][3]

Sims worked at Northwestern University as a postdoctoral fellow from 2006 until 2008, before starting at Ohio State in 2008 as an assistant professor, and she was promoted to the position of Professor in 2024.^[2][4]

Awards and honors

Sims has received major grant funding from the National Science Foundation for her academic work, most recently for the project Neural discovery of abstract inflectional structure (2022–2026).^[5]

In 2025, Sims was elected as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.^[6]

Sims serves as a co-Editor of the journal Word Structure.^[7]

Selected publications

• Haspelmath, Martin; Sims, Andrea D. (28 October 2013). Understanding Morphology. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203776506. ISBN 978-1-4441-1711-0. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
• Sims, Andrea D. (2015). Inflectional Defectiveness | Cambridge Studies in Linguistics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-04584-2. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
• Andrea D. Sims. 2023. Defectiveness. In The Wiley Blackwell companion to morphology, edited by Peter Ackema, Sabrina Bendjaballah, Eulàlia Bonet, and Antonio Fábregas. Wiley Blackwell.
• Sara Court, Andrea D. Sims and Micha Elsner. 2023. Analogy in contact: Modeling Maltese plural inflection. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 6: 35–46.
• Mark Aronoff and Andrea D. Sims. 2023. The relational nature of morphology. In Linguistic morphology in the mind and brain, edited by Davide Crepaldi, 7-25. London: Routledge.