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 This paper mostly supersedes the unpublished paper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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