Geoffrey K. Pullum
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Geoffrey Keith Pullum (/ˈpʊləm/; born 8 March 1945) is a British and American linguist specialising in the study of English. Pullum has published over 300 articles and books on various topics in linguistics, including phonology, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, and philosophy of language. He is Professor Emeritus of General Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh.[1]
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Born | (1945-03-08) 8 March 1945 (age 79) Irvine, Scotland |
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Partner | Joan Maling |
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Thesis | Rule interaction and the organization of a grammar (1979) |
Doctoral advisor | Neil Smith |
Doctoral students | Desmond Derbyshire |
Website | www |
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Also known as | Jeff Wright |
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Years active | 1961–1967 |
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Pullum is a co-author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002),[2] a comprehensive descriptive grammar of English. He was co-founder of Language Log and a contributor to Lingua Franca at The Chronicle of Higher Education, often criticizing prescriptive rules and linguistic myths.