Geoffrey K. Pullum

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.

Geoffrey Keith Pullum
Also known asJeff Wright
Instrument(s)Keyboard
Years active1961–1967
LabelsPiccadilly
Formerly of
Geoffrey Keith Pullum
Born (1945-03-08) 8 March 1945
Irvine, Scotland
Citizenship
  • British
  • United States (since 1987)
Alma mater
  • University of York (B.A.)
  • University of London (PhD)
Known for
Spouses
  • Joan E. Rainford (1967–93)
  • Barbara C. Scholz (1994–2011)
  • Patricia C. Shannon (2014–2016)
PartnerJoan Maling
Awards
  • Leonard Bloomfield Book Award (2004; shared with Rodney Huddleston)
  • Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award (2009; shared with Mark Liberman)
Scientific career
Institutions
  • University College London (University of London) (1974–1982)
  • Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (1981–1988)
  • Ohio State University (1993)
  • University of California, Santa Cruz (1981–2007)
  • University of Edinburgh (2007–2020)
ThesisRule interaction and the organization of a grammar (1979)
Doctoral advisorNeil Smith
Doctoral studentsDesmond Derbyshire
Websitewww.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/

Pullum is a co-author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002), 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.

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