GEOFFREY K. PULLUM

Professor of General Linguistics and

Head of Linguistics and English Language

School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences
University of Edinburgh

Browsables:
List of my recent posts on Language Log (new series)
Complete list of my posts on Language Log Classic
Complete chronological publications listing
Browsable vita and biographical information
The Language At Edinburgh web site

Downloadables:

New paper on adverbs by Payne, Huddleston and Pullum — beware, uncorrected proof (PDF).

New paper on the incompetence and dishonesty of Strunk and White as seen in their unkillable zombie of a book The Elements of Style. (PDF; 20 pages.)

50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice.’ An earlier retrospective disappreciation of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style, published in The Chronicle of Higher Education 55 (32), 17 April 2009, Chronicle Review section, page B15. (Prints on 3 pages.)

Recursion and the infinitude claim’ by Geoffrey K. Pullum and Barbara C. Scholz. To appear in Harry van der Hulst (ed.), Recursion in Human Language (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2009).

Expressive power of the syntactic theory implicit in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language’ (PDF, 151KB) by Geoffrey K. Pullum and James Rogers. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Essex, September 2008.

Scooping the loop snooper: a proof that the Halting Problem is unsolvable’, in verse, in the style of Dr. Seuss. (Really. I am not kidding.) Revised and debugged November 2008 version. In PDF format; or browsable HTML.

Curriculum vitae (excludes conference papers and invited lectures; 19 pp; PDF format, American letter-size paper). Also available: shorter curriculum vitae (PDF, 11 pp; A4 paper); even shorter curriculum vitae (PDF, 4 pp; A4 paper) or one-page curriculum vitae (Word format, 1 page, A4 paper)

Aural pattern recognition experiments and the subregular hierarchy’ by James Rogers and Geoffrey K. Pullum. To appear. This paper mostly supersedes the unpublished paper Animal pattern learning experiments: some mathematical background, by Geoffrey K. Pullum and James Rogers (January 2006; no warranty), though the latter offers somewhat more expository detail.

The evolution of model-theoretic frameworks in linguistics. Published in the proceedings of the Model-Theoretic Syntax at 10 workshop at ESSLLI 2007, Trinity College Dublin. [The file linked above (PDF, 15 pp) is very slightly revised and corrected from the published version.]

Systematicity and natural language syntax by Geoffrey K. Pullum and Barbara C. Scholz.’ PDF format [176KB], 28 pp. Croatian Journal of Philosophy 7 (no. 21), 375-402 (2007).

Tracking the origins of transformational generative grammar by Barbara C. Scholz and Geoffrey K. Pullum (PDF format [115KB]). Pre-proofs reading version of the review article that appeared in Journal of Linguistics 43(3), 701-723 (November 2007). (Please quote only from the printed version, because some corrections were made at the proof stage.)

Irrational nativist exuberance by Barbara C. Scholz and Geoffrey K. Pullum (PDF format [158KB]. Uncorrected page proof; please cite and quote only published version in Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science, ed. by Rob Stainton, pp. 59-80 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2006).

Contrasting applications of logic in natural language syntactic description by Geoffrey K. Pullum and Barbara C. Scholz (PDF, 22 pages); in Petr Hájek, Luis Valdés-Villanueva, and Dag Westerståhl (eds.), Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress (KCL Publications, ISBN 1-904987-21-4), 481-503. (Copyright retained by the authors; version linked above is exactly as published.)

On the distinction between model-theoretic and generative-enumerative syntactic frameworks by Geoffrey K. Pullum and Barbara C. Scholz (PDF, 14 pages 2-up), presented at the 4th conference on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics at Le Croisic, France, in 2001. (Version linked above is as published.)

Ideology, power, and linguistic theory. An unpublished paper about prescriptivism (PDF, 15 pages); revised from a presentation to the Modern Language Association, December 2004. (Copyright © 2004 by Geoffrey K. Pullum.)

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Contact Details


My Chinese name is: 溥 哲 夫 (PU3, ZHE2-FU1).

Information about
The Cambridge Grammar
of the English Language
.


Errata/corrigenda page for
The Cambridge Grammar
of the English Language
.

Information about the grammar textbook
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar
by Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum
(Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Where to get
Far From The Madding Gerund
(or call 1-800-322-BOOK
— and get free shipping!)


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