Geoffrey Pullum

BIOGRAPHY

Geoffrey Pullum had, by his own admission, a very mediocre academic career before university, ending in his leaving secondary school early at age 16. After working in several jobs and performing as part of the rock band Geno Washington And The Ram Jam Band , he enrolled in the University Of York in 1968 , graduating in 1972 with a Bachelor Of Arts with first class honours. In 1976 he completed a PhD in Linguistics at University College London .

Pullum left Britain in 1980 , taking visiting positions at the University Of Washington and Stanford University . He worked at the University Of California, Santa Cruz from 1981 to 2007 . In 1987 he became a Citizen of the USA . As Of 2004 , he is Professor of Linguistics and Distinguished Professor of Humanities. He teaches classes on English Grammar (based on his 2002 work '' The Cambridge Grammar Of The English Language '' and ''A Student's Introduction to English Grammar''), Unix , and some graduate courses in addition to his research.

Pullum is also a frequent contributor to the blog Language Log upon which he can often be found arguing for Linguistic Descriptivism .

In 2007, he announced that he would be leaving Santa Cruz and continuing his teaching and research at the University Of Edinburgh .

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Liberman, Mark and Pullum, Geoffrey K. (2006). ''Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from the Language Log'', William, James & Company. ISBN 1-59028-055-5

Huddleston, Rodney D. and Pullum, Geoffrey K. (2005). ''A Student's Introduction to English Grammar'', Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-61288-8

Huddleston, Rodney D. and Pullum, Geoffrey K. (2002). ''The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language'', Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-43146-8

Pullum, Geoffrey K. and Ladusaw, William A. (1996). ''Phonetic Symbol Guide'', University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-68535-7

Pullum, Geoffrey K. (1991). ''The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language'', University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-68534-9. (See also Eskimo Words For Snow )

Gazdar, Gerald ; Klein, Ewan ; Pullum, Geoffrey K.; and Sag, Ivan A. (1985). ''Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar.'' Basil Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN 0-631-13206-6

REFERENCES

Pullum, Geoffrey K. Geoffrey K. Pullum: Biography . Retrieved December 14, 2004.

	CATEGORIES ABOUT GEOFFREY PULLUM

	1945 births

	living people

	american linguists

	british linguists

	syntacticians

	university of california, santa cruz faculty

	people associated with university college london

	american academy of arts and sciences

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