Geoffrey Pullum
Geoffrey Keith Pullum (* 1945 in Irvine (Scotland) ) is a British-American linguist who specializes in the English language .
Career
Geoffrey Pullum's educational path before university was rather changeable and ended with leaving school at the age of 16. After doing various low-paid jobs and playing the piano in the rock band Geno Washington & the Ram Jam Band, he enrolled at the University of York in 1968 , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree and honors in 1972 . In 1976 he received from the University of London to Ph. D. in linguistics .
In 1980 Pullum went to the USA, where he was accepted as a visiting professor at the University of Washington and Stanford University . From 1981 he worked at the University of California, Santa Cruz . In 1987 he was also granted US citizenship. He has been Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh since 2007, interrupted from 2012–2013 by a visiting professorship at Brown University .
Geoffrey Pullum was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. He has also been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2003 and of the Academia Europaea since 2019 .
Works (in selection)
- Gerald Gazdar , Ewan Klein , Ivan Sag, and Geoffrey Pullum: Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1985, ISBN 0-631-13206-6 .
- Geoffrey Pullum: The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language. University of Chicago Press, 1991, ISBN 0-226-68534-9 .
- William A. Ladusaw and Geoffrey Pullum: Phonetic Symbol Guide. University of Chicago Press, 1996, ISBN 0-226-68535-7 .
- Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey Pullum: The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-521-43146-8 .
- Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey Pullum: A Student's Introduction to English Grammar. Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-521-61288-3 .
- Mark Liberman and Geoffrey Pullum: Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log. William, James & Company, 2006, ISBN 0-521-61288-8 .
Web links
- Geoffrey K. Pullums website in Edinburgh (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geoffrey K. Pullum, FBA - Curriculum Vitae , accessed April 27, 2016
- ↑ Geoffrey K. Pullum: Biography , accessed April 27, 2016
- ↑ Geoffrey K. Pullum: Short Biography , accessed April 27, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pullum, Geoffrey |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pullum, Geoffrey K .; Pullum, Geoffrey Keith |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Irvine (Scotland) |