Geoffrey Pullum#
| Membership Number: | 5117 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7748-8847 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - present Head of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh
- 2007 - present Professor of General Linguistics, School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh
- 2004 - 2007 Distinguished Professor of Humanities, University of California, Santa Cruz
- 1987 - 1993 Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, University of California, Santa Cruz
- 1983 - 2007 Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz
- 1981 - 1982 Research Staff Member Computer Research Center, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto
- 1981 - 1983 Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz
- 1974 - 1982 Lecturer in Linguistics, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London
- 1973 – 1974 Tutor, University of Cambridge
- 1972 – 1973 Teaching Fellow, Department of Language, University of York
Fields of Scholarship
- Grammar of Standard English
- Theoretical linguistics
- Philosophy of the cognitive and linguistic sciences
- Formalization of syntactic theories
- Popular presentation of linguistic science
Honours and Awards
- 2003 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- November 2007 Elected Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America
- 2009 Elected Fellow of the British Academy
