Geoffrey K. Pullum

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According to Wikipedia, Geoffrey Keith Pullum 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.

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Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (1985) (2096)
CLITICIZATION VS. INFLECTION: ENGLISH N'T (1983) (705)
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language by Rodney Huddleston (2002) (633)
Empirical assessment of stimulus poverty arguments (2002) (531)
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar (2021) (299)
Natural languages and context-free languages (1982) (234)
The nature of syntactic representation (1982) (205)
AUTONOMOUS SYNTAX AND ANALYSIS OF AUXILIARIES (1977) (200)
Aural Pattern Recognition Experiments and the Subregular Hierarchy (2011) (172)
Auxiliaries and related phenomena in a restrictive theory of grammar (1982) (165)
On the Distinction between Model-Theoretic and Generative-Enumerative Syntactic Frameworks (2001) (157)
Expletive noun phrases in subcategorized positions (1988) (145)
The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax, and other irreverent essays on the study of language (1991) (136)
Phonetic Symbol Guide (1988) (131)
Handbook of Amazonian Languages (1986) (130)
Phonological Resolution of Syntactic Feature Conflict (1986) (128)
Handbook of Amazonian Languages, Volume 1 (1986) (117)
The Duke of York gambit (1976) (115)
Plain Morphology and Expressive Morphology (1987) (112)
Generalized phrase structure grammar : a theoretical synopsis (1982) (104)
Searching for arguments to support linguistic nativism (2002) (95)
English nominal gerund phrases as noun phrases with verb-phrase heads (1991) (92)
The Principle of Phonology-Free Syntax: Introductory Remarks (1986) (84)
Category Structures (1988) (81)
Learnability, Hyperlearning, and the Poverty of the Stimulus (1996) (79)
Anaphoric one and its implications (2013) (75)
Recursion and the infinitude claim (2010) (72)
THE MORPHOLEXICAL NATURE OF ENGLISH TO-CONTRACTION (1997) (71)
A theory of command relations (1990) (64)
Order, Concord and Constituency (1983) (61)
The Principle of Phonology-Free Syntax: four apparent counterexamples in French (1997) (60)
Essays on the sound pattern of English (1975) (58)
Model theory and the content of OT constraints (2002) (56)
Fear and loathing of the English passive (2014) (55)
Word Order Universals and Grammatical Relations (1977) (52)
Constraints on Intransitive Quasi-Serial Verb Constructions in Modern Colloquial English (1990) (49)
Object-Initial Languages (1981) (48)
Exophoric VP Ellipsis (2014) (47)
The distribution and category status of adjectives and adverbs (2010) (46)
The Central Question in Comparative Syntactic Metatheory (2013) (46)
Rule interaction and the organization of a grammar (1979) (46)
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar: Information packaging in the clause (2005) (43)
On Two Recent Attempts to Show that English Is Not a CFL (1984) (41)
Irrational nativist exuberance (2006) (39)
Adjectives and Adverbs (2002) (39)
Handbook of Amazonian Languages, Volume 2 (1990) (39)
Inflectional Morphology and Related Matters (2002) (34)
Learning antecedents for anaphoric one (2004) (34)
Processing English with a Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (1982) (33)
Coordination and Subordination (2008) (32)
Relative Constructions and Unbounded Dependencies (2002) (32)
Contrasting Applications of Logic in Natural Language Syntactic Description (2005) (31)
Possible and impossible segments (1999) (29)
Systematicity and Natural Language Syntax (2007) (29)
Topic...Comment (1989) (29)
More than words (2001) (28)
Truth Functional Connectives in Natural Language (1976) (28)
On the Mathematical Foundations of Syntactic Structures (2011) (28)
Argument or no argument? (2007) (25)
The syntax-phonology interface (1988) (25)
Handbook of Amazonian Languages, Volume 4 (1998) (25)
Languages with object before subject: a comment and a catalogue (1981) (24)
50 years of stupid grammar advice (2009) (24)
Nostalgic views from Building 20 (1996) (24)
Phonology in syntax: The Somali optional agreement rule (1983) (24)
Animal Pattern-Learning Experiments: Some Mathematical Background∗ (2006) (23)
Ungrammaticality, rarity, and corpus use (2007) (23)
Language that dare not speak its name (1997) (22)
Context-Freeness and the Computer Processing of Human Languages (1983) (20)
Licensing of prosodic features by syntactic rules: the key to auxiliary reduction (1997) (19)
Footloose and Context-Free (1987) (18)
Tracking the origins of transformational generative grammar1 (2007) (16)
LEXICAL CATEGORIZATION IN ENGLISH DICTIONARIES AND TRADITIONAL GRAMMARS (2009) (16)
Computationally relevant properties of natural languages and their grammars (1985) (16)
The Oxford Handbook of English Grammar (2016) (15)
Syntactic and Semantic Parsability (1984) (15)
The Land of the Free and The Elements of Style (2010) (14)
Lessons from the English auxiliary system (2019) (14)
The Evolution of Model-Theoretic Frameworks in Linguistics* (2017) (14)
Topic...comment (1988) (13)
Condition Duplication, Paradigm Homonymy, and Transconstructional Constraints (1991) (13)
Prepositions and Preposition Phrases (2002) (12)
Assuming Some Version of X-Bar Theory in Papers from the General Session at the Twenty-First Regional Meeting (1985) (12)
For universals (but not finite-state learning) visit the zoo (2009) (12)
'Such that' clauses and the context-freeness of English (1985) (11)
Two Spurious Counterexamples To the Principle of Phonology-Free Syntax (1986) (11)
Philosophy of Linguistics (2011) (11)
Fusion of functions: The syntax of once, twice and thrice1 (2007) (10)
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar: Contents (2005) (10)
Deleting named morphemes (1983) (10)
Foot features and parasitic gaps (1984) (10)
Remarks on the 1989 revision of the International Phonetic Alphabet (1990) (10)
Slurs and Obscenities (2018) (10)
Review of An introduction to formal language theory by Robert N. Moll, Michael A. Arbib, and A. J. Kfoury with contributions by James Pustejovsky. Springer-Verlag 1988. (1989) (9)
Computational Linguistics and Generative Linguistics: The Triumph of Hope over Experience (2009) (9)
Gerund participles and head-complement inflection conditions (1999) (9)
The mathematics of language (2006) (8)
Sequential and simultaneous rule application in Spanish phonology (1976) (8)
Features: Perspectives on a key notion in Linguistics (2010) (7)
LOWTH’S GRAMMAR: A RE-EVALUATION (1974) (7)
Topic... comment (1986) (7)
Natural language interfaces and strategic computing (1987) (6)
Responding to polar and alternative questions (2012) (6)
Theory, data, and the epistemology of syntax (2017) (5)
Creation Myths of Generative Grammar and the Mathematics of SyntacticStructures (2007) (5)
Inessential Features and Expressive Power of Descriptive Metalanguages (2010) (5)
Comments on the two central claims of ‘trace theory’ (1980) (5)
Free Variation Isn't Symmetric, Either (1972) (4)
Object Initial Languages. Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Volume 23. (1979) (4)
SYNTACTIC RELATIONS AND LINGUISTIC UNIVERSALS (1980) (4)
Sections from The Principle of Phonology-Free Syntax (1975) (4)
What grammars are, or ought to be (2019) (4)
Topic... comment (1984) (4)
Theoretical linguistics and the ontology of linguistic structure (1997) (4)
A Select Bibliography of Guiana Carib Languages (1979) (4)
Topic ... comment (1987) (4)
Theorizing about the Syntax of Human Language (2020) (4)
Logic, Syntax, and Grammatical Agreement (1985) (4)
Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log (2006) (3)
Letters to Language (2009) (3)
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar: Clause structure, complements, and adjuncts (2005) (3)
The Syntax-Phonology Boundary and Current Syntactic Theories in Papers on Morphology. (1984) (3)
Linguistics: Why It Matters (2018) (3)
Expressive power of the syntactic theory implicit in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language ∗ (2009) (3)
The classification of finite subordinate clauses (2004) (3)
The core and the periphery (2020) (3)
Systematicity and Natural Language Syntax 1 (2007) (2)
A bibliography of contemporary linguistic research (1978) (2)
Waiting for Universal Grammar (2020) (2)
Topic ... comment (1985) (2)
Does our language influence the way we think (2012) (2)
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar: Introduction (2005) (2)
Topic... comment (1987) (2)
Sacred That and Wicked Which: Prescriptivism and Change in the Use of English Relativizers (2011) (2)
A new look at language teaching and testing: English as subject and vehicle : (2010) (2)
Topic ... comment (1985) (2)
Empirical assessment of stimulus poverty arguments 1 (2002) (2)
Scooping the Loop Snooper (2000) (2)
The truth about English grammar: rarely pure and never simple (2010) (2)
Chapter 1 The Evolution of Model-Theoretic Frameworks in Linguistics 1 (2007) (2)
Topic... comment (1984) (1)
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar: Prepositions and preposition phrases (2005) (1)
CLS book of squibs : cumulative index, 1968-1977 (1977) (1)
English Usage Guides (2017) (1)
Review of Antilinguistics: a critical assessment of modern linguistic theory and practice by Amorey Gethin. Intellect Ltd 1990. (1991) (1)
Indian Scripts and the Teacher of English (1971) (1)
When language doesn't add up (1998) (1)
Approximate locations of Tupi-Guarani language groups (1998) (1)
Topic ... comment (1984) (1)
Topic...comment (1989) (1)
Twentieth century conceptions of language: Mastering the metaphysics market. By RUDOLPH P. BOTHA. Oxford, UK, and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1993. Pp. xiv, 349. Cloth $59.95. (2016) (1)
The usage game: Catering to perverts (2017) (1)
Introduction to English Grammar (2005) (1)
Consigning Phenomena to Performance: A Response to Neeleman (2013) (1)
Topic ... comment (1989) (1)
The unfortunate divorce of English grammar from English literature (2015) (1)
Andreas Koutsoudas (ed.), The application and ordering of grammatical rules . The Hague: Mouton, 1976. Pp. viii + 360. (1979) (1)
The Handbook of English Linguistics (2008) (1)
Yokuts Bibliography: An Addendum (1973) (1)
Basic concepts of GPSG (1987) (0)
The "Greenberg hypothesis". (1996) (0)
4 Noun classifiers (1991) (0)
A. Kraak (ed.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 1972–1973. Assen/Amsterdam: Van Gorcum, 1975. Pp. 294. (1976) (0)
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar: Glossary (2005) (0)
Outline of Contents for each chapter in Part I (1986) (0)
What makes us human (2018) (0)
Exophoric VP Ellipsis.Final (2016) (0)
War of words (2013) (0)
1 Preliminaries (2018) (0)
English Language (2020) (0)
Letters to the editors (1985) (0)
Barbara Hall Partee, Fundamentals of mathematics for linguistics . (Pp. xxiv + 242. D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1978.) (1979) (0)
Good argument for breaking with tradition (Review of Analysing Sentences by Noel Burton-Roberts (2010) (0)
Book reviews: Tree adjoining grammars: formalisms, linguistic analysis and processing (2002) (0)
REVIEWS (2007) (0)
Computational realization of a generalized phrase structure grammar: University of Sussex, England (1982) (0)
HOW MUCH KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGE IS INNATE ? (2005) (0)
Outline of contents for grammatical sketches (1990) (0)
Implicit objects as a case in point (2014) (0)
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar: Preface (2005) (0)
Particles and Clitics (1990) (0)
OBJECT-INITIAL LANGUAGES1 (2019) (0)
C.L. Baker and John J. McCarthy, eds. , The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition . Reviewed by (1983) (0)
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar: Grade and comparison (2005) (0)
These "rules" are already broken (Review of Strictly English: The correct way to write......and why it matters, by Simon Heffer (2010) (0)
English grammar and English literature (2016) (0)
Topic ... comment (1985) (0)
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar: Non-finite clauses and clauses without verbs (2005) (0)
Other Books Received (1987) (0)
Barbara H. Partee, Alice ter Meulen & Robert E. Wall, Mathematical methods in linguistics. (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 30.) Dordrecht, Boston & London: Kluwer Academic, 1990. Pp. xx + 663. (1991) (0)
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar: A rapid overview (2005) (0)
Within the Altaic family, restrictions on the distribution of round vowels (2001) (0)
Modern and traditional descriptive approaches to grammar (2016) (0)
Topic ... comment (1983) (0)
Locations of Warekena and some neighboring language groups (1998) (0)
2 Previous comparative studies of Maipuran (1991) (0)
6 Reconstructed phonemes and reflexes (1991) (0)
Appendix V: Distinguishing Properties of TupÃ-GuaranÃ Languages (1998) (0)
Tree automata, grammars and parsing schemata: equivalent systems for constraint solving (2007) (0)
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar: Relative clauses (2005) (0)
Syntax of the Sentence or the Clause (1990) (0)
The Unicode ® Standard Version 9 . 0 – Core Specification (2008) (0)
Topic ... comment (1984) (0)
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING UNIVERSITY OF DANANG ----------------- ĐẶNG THỊ BÍCH HƯỜNG AN INVESTIGATION INTO ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE IDIOMS CONTAINING WORDS DENOTING WEATHER Field: THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Code: 60.22.15 M.A. THESIS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (2012) (0)
Tree Adjoining Grammars: Formalisms, Linguistic Analysis and Processing edited by Anne Abeillé and Owen Rambow (2002) (0)
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar: Verbs, tense, aspect, and mood (2005) (0)
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar: Further reading (2005) (0)
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar: Morphology: words and lexemes (2005) (0)
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar: Negation and related phenomena (2005) (0)
Affirmative Action and the University: A Philosophical Inquiry (1993) (0)
Cumulative Index to Volumes 1-3 (1991) (0)
SYNTAX OF PHRASE TYPES (1990) (0)
The of the in collaboration with Cambridge Grammar English Language Rodney Huddleston (2002) (0)
Topic... comment (1987) (0)
Art of pushing all the right buttons (Review of Don Norman, Living with complexity) (2011) (0)
Intuition and Decidability in Grammar and Number Theory (2017) (0)
Vowel Charts and Central Vowel Transcriptions in American and IPA Traditions (1998) (0)
Appendix I: Reconstructions (1998) (0)
Topic...comment (1987) (0)
William Strunk and E. B. White have a vice-like grip on educated Americans' views about grammar and usage. Yet almost everything they say on that topic is wrong. (2010) (0)
What to be realist about in linguistic science (2020) (0)
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar: Coordination and more (2005) (0)
Alexis Manaster-Ramer (ed.), Mathematics of language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1987. Pp. x + 401. (1990) (0)
Forthcoming articles (1992) (0)
Appendix IV: Changes which Resulted in Subgroups (1998) (0)
Review Article (1986) (0)
Phrase Structure and X‐Bar Theory (2006) (0)
Desmond Derbyshire (1924-2007) (2008) (0)
MOL 10/11: the mathematics of language (2010) (0)
Cumulative Index to Volumes 1-4 (1998) (0)
Philosophy and Linguistics (2000) (0)
Modern and Traditional Descriptive Approaches (2019) (0)
4. The form of presentation of the International Phonetic Alphabet (1988) (0)
The Editor's Department (2015) (0)
Formal Linguistics and the Ordinary Working Grammarian (1999) (0)
Topic... Comment (1983) (0)
Text 2. No New Tracks (1990) (0)
2. ELT Research from the Global South: Uncertainties in a Rarely-Walked Road (2020) (0)
1 An overview of the Arawakan language family (1991) (0)
Discourse conditions on Verb Phrase Ellipsis and the question of syntactic identity: new evidence from corpus data and acceptability experiments (2019) (0)
Fifty years in Brazil: A sampler of SIL work 1958-2008 (2008) (0)
SYNTAX OF THE SENTENCE OR CLAUSE (1991) (0)
Book Reviews: An Introduction to Formal Language Theory (1989) (0)
Some remarks about The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2006) (0)
ENGLISH GRAMMAR FOR THE 21^ CENTURY : TIME FOR AN EXORCISM (2002) (0)
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar: Nouns and noun phrases (2005) (0)
Topic...comment (1983) (0)
Humbug about hucksters (Review of Julie Sedivy and Greg Carlson, Sold on Language: How advertisers talk to you and what this says about you) (2011) (0)
Appendix Î : TupÃ-GuaranÃ Phonemes and their Reflexes (1998) (0)
Exophoric VP Ellipsis Philip Miller (2012) (0)
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar: Subordination and content clauses (2005) (0)
Topic ... comment (1984) (0)
The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language Rosemary Salomone (2022) (2023) (0)
Appendix III: Some Phonological Rules from TupinambÃ¡ which apply to TupÃ-GuaranÃ languages in general (1998) (0)
The Duke of York gambiti (2016) (0)
5 Preliminary reconstructions and cognate sets (1991) (0)
Thanks to our guest reviewers (1985) (0)
Computationally Relavant Properties of Natural Languages and Thier Grammar. (1985) (0)
Review of Principle-based parsing: computation and psycholinguistics by Robert C. Berwick, Steven P. Abney, and Carol Tenny. Kluwer Academic Publishers 1991. (1993) (0)
Does this man ever sleep? (1997) (0)
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar: Clause type: asking, exclaiming, and directing (2005) (0)
3 Aspects of Maipuran grammatical structure (1991) (0)

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