Editing Irene Heim (section)

{{Short description|American linguist}}
{{Infobox academic
| name              = Irene Heim
| image             = <!--(filename only)-->
| alt               =
| caption           =
| birth_name        = Irene Roswitha Heim
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1954|10|30}}
| birth_place       = [[Munich]], West Germany
| death_date        = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) -->
| death_place       =
| residence         =
| citizenship       =
| nationality       =
| discipline        = {{hlist|[[Semantics_(linguistics)|Semantics]]|[[Linguistics]]}}
| workplaces        = {{hlist|[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]|[[UCLA]]|[[University of Texas at Austin]]}}
| alma_mater        = [[University of Massachusetts Amherst|UMass Amherst]]
| doctoral_advisor  = [[Barbara Partee]]
| academic_advisors = 
| doctoral_students = 
| notable_students  =
| known_for         =
| author_abbrev_bot =
| author_abbrev_zoo =
| influences        =
| influenced        =
| awards            = Fellow of the [[Linguistic Society of America]]
| signature         = <!--(filename only)-->
| signature_alt     =
| footnotes         =
| thesis_title=The Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases
| thesis_year=1982
| thesis_url= https://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/jA2YTJmN/Heim%20Dissertation%20with%20Hyperlinks.pdf
}}

'''Irene Roswitha Heim''' (born October 30, 1954) is a [[linguist]] and a leading specialist in [[semantics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Irene Heim - Google Scholar|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,32&q=irene+heim&btnG=|access-date=2021-11-04|website=scholar.google.com}}</ref> She was a professor at the [[University of Texas at Austin]] and [[UCLA]] before moving to the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in 1989, where she is Professor Emerita of Linguistics. She served as Head of the Linguistics Section of the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.