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	Geoffrey Pullum - Definition, explanation
		Professor Geoffrey K. Pullum (born in 1945 in Irvine, Scotland) is a linguist specialising in the study of English.
		Geoffrey Pullum had, by his own admission, a very mediocre academic career before university, ending in his leaving secondary school early at age 16.
		Pullum is also a frequent contributor to the blog Language Log.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/g/ge/geoffrey_pullum.php (251 words)

	Geoffrey Pullum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Professor Geoffrey K. Pullum (born in 1945 in Irvine, Scotland) is a linguist specialising in the study of English.
		Geoffrey Pullum had, by his own admission, a very mediocre academic career before university, ending in his leaving secondary school early at age 16.
		Pullum is also a frequent contributor to the blog Language Log upon which he can often be found arguing for linguistic descriptivism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geoffrey_Pullum (372 words)

	Language Log - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In May 2006, a compilation of posts by Liberman and Pullum was published in book form by William, James and Co., under the title Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log (ISBN 1590280555).
		Language Log was started on July 28, 2003 by Liberman and Geoffrey Pullum, a linguist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
		Geoffrey Nunberg, chair of the American Heritage Dictionary usage panel and a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Language_Log (714 words)

	Current Fellows: Geoffrey K. Pullum
		Geoffrey K. Pullum is a theoretical linguist with broad interests in the study of language, including the mathematical and philosophical underpinnings of formal linguistics.
		At the Radcliffe Institute, Pullum will be working with James Rogers and Barbara C. Scholz on a joint project concerning the logical foundations of syntactic theory.
		Pullum received his PhD in general linguistics from the University of London.
	www.radcliffe.edu /fellowships/current/bio.php?id=174&year=2005-2006 (311 words)

	Lingua Franca - 28/12/2002: Universal Grammar...
		Geoffrey Pullum is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and co-author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English language.
		Geoffrey Pullum: Compiling a grammar for a human language, just one language, is a massive endeavour.
		Jill Kitson: Geoffrey Pullum, Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and co-author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/ling/stories/s750150.htm (1957 words)

	Lingua Franca - 14/12/2002: Grammar and Guns - When Words Fail...
		Grammarian Geoffrey Pullum on the language of the Second Amendment of the American Constitution.
		Geoff Pullum is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and co-author of the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.
		Geoffrey Pullum: A few months ago, John Ashcroft, the US Attorney General, chief law enforcement official of the United States, made a public statement that was music to the ears of the National Rifle Association, or NRA, the immensely powerful lobbying organisation for gun ownership rights.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/ling/stories/s746787.htm (2079 words)

	Geoffrey K. Pullum: Publications
		Pullum, Geoffrey K. ‘The origins of the cyclic principle.’ In Jeanette Marshall Denton, Grace P. Chan, and Costas P. Canakis (eds.), CLS 28: Papers from the 28th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 1992, Volume 2: The parasession: The cycle in linguistic theory, 209-236.
		Pullum, Geoffrey K. ‘Learnability, hyperlearning, and the poverty of the stimulus.’ Jan Johnson, Matthew L. Juge, and Jeri L. Moxley (eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting: General Session and Parasession on the Role of Learnability in Grammatical Theory, 498-513.
		Pullum, Geoffrey K. and Barbara C. Scholz (1997) ‘Theoretical linguistics and the ontology of linguistic structure.’ SKY 1997: Suomen kielitieteelisen yhdistyksen vuosikirja 1997 1997 Yearbook of the Linguistic Association of Finland, 25-47.
	people.ucsc.edu /~pullum/publications.html (6032 words)

	UC Santa Cruz Press Release: Geoffrey Pullum to deliver 40th annual Faculty Research Lecture at UC Santa Cruz
		Pullum was selected by UCSC faculty members for the prestigious honor in recognition of his “extraordinary research profile,” and “dazzling ability to teach and entertain at the same time.”
		Pullum said he was deeply honored to have been chosen as the speaker for the 40th annual Faculty Research Lecture.
		Pullum graduated with high honors from the University of York in 1972, and completed his Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of London in 1976.
	www.ucsc.edu /news_events/press_releases/text.asp?pid=1041 (601 words)

	Geoffrey Pullum
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		Professor Geoffrey K. Pullum (born March 8, 1945 in Irvine, Scotland) is a linguist specialising in the study of English.
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		Pullum there ridiculed the idea that the Eskimos had significantly more words for snow than did English, for example.
		He was motivated to do so, he explained, partly by a wish to correct a specific popular misconception, but much more by a wish to use this canard as a cautionary example of human gullibility, shoddy scholarship, and even of latent racism.
		His essay attracted a good deal of attention, and has even, according to his friend and ally Geoffrey Nunberg, gone a long way toward correcting the specific error in question, if not the underlying faults in human nature or society that Pullum tells us are his real targets.
	www.rules-of-the-game.com /lin003-snow-words.htm (1868 words)

	Tenser, said the Tensor: Correct and Relevant
		Over at Language Log, Geoffrey Pullum responds to some comments on ceejbot's blog regarding prescriptivism, descriptivism, and an earlier post of his, and the commenter has since replied (warning: moderate-to-heavy snarkiness).
		Pullum (I can't bring myself to call him "Geoff") asserts that even from a descriptivist point of view it's an error, because it's almost certainly a disfluency: the person who wrote the letter is very unlikely to speak a strange idiolect in which the following two sentences are grammatical:
		I think Pullum is likely correct, but I worry that it's not possible to come to his conclusions by generalizing from simpler sentence like (1) and (2).
	tenser.typepad.com /tenser_said_the_tensor/2005/01/correct_and_rel.html (854 words)

	What's Language Got to do With It? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Geoffrey Pullum, “She’s they until you acknowledge her,” from Language Log, Dec. 14, 2004.
		In this weblog post, linguist Geoffrey Pullum provides a detailed analysis of the use of singular “they” by an accomplished BBC journalist and argues that such a usage provides authors with a unique tool for literary subtlety.
		Geoffrey Pullum is a professor of linguistics at the University of California Santa Cruz.
	www.wwnorton.com /write/language/ch/6.htm (710 words)

	A Student's Introduction to English Grammar (Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey Pullum)
		Huddleston and Pullum draw on the latest research, having "frequently found that pronouncements unchallenged for 200 years are in fact flagrantly false".
		Huddleston and Pullum believe "that every educated person in the English-speaking world should know something about the details of the grammar of English", but SIEG is aimed more narrowly, at students of English or linguistics.
		It doesn't assume any prior knowledge of grammar or linguistics, but it is pretty solid and those without any background at all in formal approaches to language (or possibly computer science or mathematics) are likely to find it daunting.
	dannyreviews.com /h/English_Grammar.html (487 words)

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		As Martin and Pullum note, it seems of a part with all the other exotica ("polysynthetic perversity" as Pullum puts it) that we attribute to Eskimos -- the people who rub noses, cast their old people out in the cold, eat raw blubber, and all the rest of it.
		Pullum describes these stories "racist" and "xenophobic," but this seems a little off the mark to me, at least in the sense we would apply those words, say, to the stereotype that an American anglo might invoke to justify a disparaging attitude towards Mexican immigrants.
		Pullum, Geoffrey K.: 1989, 'The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax,' Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 7, 2, 275-281.
	www-csli.stanford.edu /~nunberg/snow.html (2825 words)

	The Valve - A Literary Organ \| The Mark Steyn Code
		Geoffrey Pullum’s original languagelog posts are here and here.
		The linguist Geoffrey Pullum - or linguist Geoffrey Pullum, as novelist Dan Brown would say - identifies this as the anarthrous occupational nominal premodifier, to which renowned novelist Dan Brown is unusually partial.
		By the by, I just remembered that I’ve emailed Geoffrey Pullum exactly once - to inform him in all mock-seriousness that I scooped this post of his with this post of mine, which acknowledged that Brian Weatherson made the point first.
	www.thevalve.org /go/valve/article/the_mark_steyn_code (1117 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 90011286
		Geoffrey K. Pullum's writings began as columns in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory in 1983.
		Those columns are reproduced here--almost exactly as his friends and colleagues originally warned him not to publish them--along with new material including a foreword by James D. McCawley, a prologue, and a new introduction to each of these clever pieces.
		Pullum will take you on an excursion into the wild and untamed fringes of linguistics.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/uchi052/90011286.html (322 words)

	Elliott Bay Book Co.
		GEOFFREY K. Sunday, November 5 at 2 p.m.
		Some of the best postings on Language Log, maintained by UC Santa Cruz linguistics professor Geoffrey Pullum and University of Pennsylvania phonetic linguistics professor Mark Liberman, are now compiled in their new book, Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log (William James).
		Geoffrey Pullum's first academic posting was here at the University of Washington, and he is back tonight to discuss this lively book.
	www.elliottbaybook.com /events/nov06/pullum.jsp (275 words)

	The Straight Dope: Are there nine Eskimo words for snow (revisited)?
		I myself am a Koniag Eskimo and was inflamed to see your ignorant, rude, racist, and idiotic statements about a different race than yours posted on a Web site where people ask questions and want simply the answers, not to read a bunch of redneck crap from some ignorant person who doesn't take the time.
		Turning to Stephanie's point, I did not squarely address the question of whether the Eskimo/Inuit have an unusually large number of terms for snow or whether this tells us anything useful about the Eskimo worldview, the interdependence of language and cognition, or anything else.
		Geoffrey Pullum rectifies this omission in the essay cited, claiming that "the truth is that the Eskimos do not have lots of different words for snow" (his emphasis).
	www.straightdope.com /columns/010202.html (810 words)

	Amazon.ca: Far from the Madding Gerund: And Other Dispatches from Language Log: Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mark Liberman and Geoffrey K. Pullum are definitely two of the big boys, and they do indeed like to play.
		Liberman and Pullum are not your prototypical linguistics professors, and they don't write boring, pedantic, stodgy old posts about arcane topics.
		Early on, I was disheartened to find Pullum allowing for the fact that the singular they (one of my own biggest pet peeves) is becoming standard, but it just goes to show you how separated both authors are from prescriptivists who oppose any and all changes in the English language.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1590280555 (933 words)

	The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax (Geoffrey Pullum)
		Starting in 1983, Geoffrey Pullum published a series of informal columns in the journal Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, under the title "TOPIC...
		Among other topics, Pullum deals with the stupidities of libel law (a textbook censored because its examples were considered libelous), the foolishness of certain typographical conventions (punctuation inside quotes), the ubiquitous nonsense about the number of Eskimo words for snow, and the dangers of the English First movement in the United States.
		Clever, amusing, irreverent, and often informative (at least to this non-linguist), Pullum's columns definitely deserve their appearance in book form.
	dannyreviews.com /h/The_Great_Eskimo_Vocabulary_Hoax.html (312 words)

	Special Circumstances: The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax by Geoffrey Pullum
		This is a collection of 23 essays written by Geoff Pullum which originally appeared in the `TOPIC...
		Pullum's columns ran in NLLT for six years.
		You can find current writings by Geoff Pullum on similar topics appearing on the language log.
	www.cs.sfu.ca /~anoop/weblog/archives/000038.html (435 words)

	The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language - Cambridge University Press
		Preliminaries Geoffrey K. Pullum and Rodney Huddleston; 2.
		Adjectives and adverbs Geoffrey K. Pullum and Rodney Huddleston; 7.
		Prepositions and preposition phrases Geoffrey K. Pullum and Rodney Huddleston; 8.
	www.cambridge.org /uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521431468 (379 words)

	Amazon.co.jp： The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language: 洋書: Rodney D. Huddleston,Geoffrey K. Pullum
		The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language is the first comprehensive descriptive grammar of English to appear for over fifteen years, a period which has seen immense developments in linguistic theory at all levels.
		The principal authors, Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey Pullum, are among the world's leading scholars in this area, and they have benefited from the expertise of an international team of distinguished contributors in preparing what will be the definitive grammar for decades to come.
		Geoffrey K. Pullum is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is the author of 200 articles and books on English grammar and a variety of other topics in theoretical and applied linguistics.
	www.amazon.co.jp /o/ASIN/0521431468/bosscity-22/ref=nosim (446 words)

	References
		G.K. Pullum (1978) A Bibliography of Contemporary Linguistic Research, New York: Garland.
		G.K. Pullum (1985) Computationally relevant properties of natural languages and their grammars.
		G.K. Pullum and G. Natural languages and context-free languages.
	www.cogs.susx.ac.uk /research/nlp/gazdar/briscoe/references.html (979 words)

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		The aim of this talk is to open a discussion about how to clarify and focus the possibilities for such research.
		But others will prefer to just put their feet up and listen to an informal talk about the results before they decide whether to look at denser presentations; and that's OK too.
		Geoff Pullum's work is supported by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, where he is the Constance E. Smith fellow this year.
	www.ircs.upenn.edu /colloq/2006/spring/pullum.html (418 words)

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