Geoffrey K Pullum

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ID89056
NOMBREGeoffrey K Pullum
NOMBRESGeoffrey K
APELLIDOPullum
FIRMAPULLUM G K
AFILIACIONESUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
ORCID0000-0002-7748-8847
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS80
TOTAL DE CITAS244
TOTAL COMO AUTOR76
TOTAL COMO EDITOR4
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1973
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H8

  • The prehistory of generative grammar and Chomsky's debt to Emil Post

    Open AccessGeoffrey K PullumARTICLEHistoriographia Linguistica2025Referencias: 49

    Generative linguistics has a longer prehistory than most linguists realize. The rewriting systems that Chomsky brought into linguistics as generative grammars were explicitly defined more than a century ago, as part of a project to formalize inference rules in logic, and were later applied to studying mathematical properties of certain kinds of infinite sets. Their developer was the mathematician and logician Emil Leon Post, whose work was inspir…

  • The Rise of English

    Geoffrey K PullumARTICLESociolinguistic Studies2023

    The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language Rosemary Salomone (2022) New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 485ISBN: 9780190625610 (hbk) ISBN: 0190625619 (eBook)

  • Theorizing about the Syntax of Human Language

    Open AccessGeoffrey K PullumARTICLECadernos de Linguística e Teoria…2020Citada por: 4Referencias: 48

    Linguists standardly assume that a grammar is a formal system that 'generates' a set of derivations. But this is not the only way to formalize grammars. I sketch a different basis for syntactic theory: model-theoretic syntax (MTS). It defines grammars as finite sets of statements that are true (or false) in certain kinds of structure (finite labeled graphs such as trees). Such statements provide a direct description of syntactic structure. Genera…

  • Lessons from the English auxiliary system

    Open AccessIvan A Sag, Rui P Chaves et al.ARTICLEJournal of Linguistics2019Citada por: 2Referencias: 11

    The English auxiliary system exhibits many lexical exceptions and subregularities, and considerable dialectal variation, all of which are frequently omitted from generative analyses and discussions. This paper presents a detailed, movement-free account of the English Auxiliary System within Sign-Based Construction Grammar (Sag 2010, Michaelis 2011, Boas & Sag 2012) that utilizes techniques of lexicalist and construction-based analysis. The result…

  • Fear and loathing of the English passive

    Geoffrey K PullumARTICLELanguage & Communication2014Citada por: 5Referencias: 1

  • Anaphoric one and its implications

    Open AccessJohn Payne, Geoffrey K Pullum et al.ARTICLELanguage2013Citada por: 7Referencias: 3

    The nominal anaphoric element one has figured prominently in discussions of linguistic nativism because of an important argument advanced by C. L. Baker (1978). His argument has been frequently cited within the cognitive and linguistic sciences, and has provided the topic for a chain of experimental and computational psycholinguistics papers. Baker's crucial grammaticality facts, though much repeated in the literature, have not been critically in…

  • Handbook Amazonian Languages

    Desmond C Derbyshire, Geoffrey K PullumBOOKHandbook Amazonian Languages2010

  • The Land of the Free and The Elements of Style

    Open AccessGeoffrey K PullumARTICLEEnglish Today2010

    The Elements of Style (henceforth, Elements ) is a slender book of advice on usage and writing, revised by the admired novelist and essayist E. B. White from a book by his former English professor. White did well to accept Macmillan's suggestion that he should revise and expand his former professor's book for commercial republication: successive editions of the revision sold over ten million copies. Many college-educated Americans revere Elements…

  • The distribution and category status of adjectives and adverbs

    Open AccessJohn Payne, Rodney Huddleston et al.ARTICLEWORD Structure2010Citada por: 8Referencias: 6

    It has long been argued that the environments in which adjectives and adverbs occur are mutually exclusive. This claim is based on a superficial observation that adjectives modify nouns, while adverbs modify other categories. In this paper, we argue that there are a substantial number of environments in English where complementarity, thus defined, does not hold. One interesting such environment is the function of modifier of nouns, and in one sec…

  • Letters to Language

    Open AccessGeoffrey K Pullum, Stephen R AndersonARTICLELanguage2009

    Letters to Language Geoffrey K. Pullum and Stephen R. Anderson Language accepts letters from readers that briefly and succinctly respond to or comment upon either material published previously in the journal or issues deemed of importance to the field. The editor reserves the right to edit letters as needed. Brief replies from relevant parties are included as warranted. Response to Anderson February 16, 2009 To the Editor: In the article derived …

  • Tracking the origins of transformational generative grammar

    Open AccessBarbara C Scholz, Geoffrey K PullumARTICLEJournal of Linguistics2007Citada por: 3Referencias: 4

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  • Fusion of functions

    Open AccessJohn Payne, Rodney Huddleston et al.ARTICLEJournal of Linguistics2007Citada por: 2Referencias: 3

    In this paper we present a detailed new analysis of the English expressions once , twice and thrice . These, we claim, are primarily compound determinatives, analogous in many respects to expressions like someone and somewhere . The new analysis exploits the framework of the Cambridge grammar of the English language (2002) in which the morphological nature of the compound determinative category reflects a fusion of functions, typically determiner…

  • Some remarks about The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

    Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K PullumARTICLEEnglish Studies2006Referencias: 1

  • The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

    Open AccessRodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K Pullum et al.BOOKCambridge Grammar of the English…2002

    This book presents a new and comprehensive descriptive grammar of English, written by the principal authors in collaboration with an international research team of a dozen linguists in five countries. It represents a major advance over previous grammars by virtue of drawing systematically on the linguistic research carried out on English during the last forty years. It incorporates insights from the theoretical literature but presents them in a w…

  • Adjectives and adverbs

    Open AccessGeoffrey K Pullum, Rodney HuddlestonCHAPTERCambridge Grammar of the English…2002

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  • Model theory and the content of OT constraints

    Open AccessChristopher Potts, Geoffrey K PullumARTICLEPhonology2002

    We develop an extensible description logic for stating the content of optimality-theoretic constraints in phonology, and specify a class of structures for interpreting it. The aim is a transparent formalisation of OT. We show how to state a wide range of constraints, including markedness, input–output faithfulness and base–reduplicant faithfulness. However, output–output correspondence and ‘intercandidate’ sympathy are revealed to be problematic:…

  • Searching for arguments to support linguistic nativism

    Barbara C Scholz, Geoffrey K PullumARTICLEThe Linguistic Review2002

    c©Walter de Gruyter Few arguments are more dangerous than the ones that feel right but cant be justiÞed. Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man (1981: 157) 1

  • Empirical assessment of stimulus poverty arguments

    Geoffrey K Pullum, Barbara C ScholzARTICLEThe Linguistic Review2002

    This article examines a type of argument for linguistic nativism that takes the following form: (i) a fact about some natural language is exhibited that allegedly could not be learned from experience without access to a certain kind of (positive) data; (ii) it is claimed that data of the type in question are not found in normal linguistic experience; hence (iii) it is concluded that people cannot be learning the language from mere exposure to lan…

  • An Introduction to the Languages of the World

    Geoffrey K Pullum, Geoffrey Pullum et al.ARTICLELanguage1999

    An Introduction to the Languages of the World is a text designed to introduce beginning linguistics students, who now typically come to their study with little background in languages, to the variety of the languages of the world. Lyovin begins by explaining the classification of languages, discussing not only genetic classification but typological and sociolinguistic classification as well. He follows this with an explication of the classificati…

  • Short Report

    Rachel Walker, Geoffrey K PullumARTICLELanguage1999Citada por: 5

    In this article we consider the relationship between phonetic possibility and phonological permissibility of segment types. We ask (i) are any phonetically impossible segments phonologically permissible? and (ii) are any phonetically possible segments phonologically impermissible? Our main focus is on answering (ii). We analyze the implications of the only relevant case we can find, which is in Cohn's (1990, 1993a) examination of nasality spreadi…

  • Vowel Charts and Central Vowel Transcriptions in American and IPA Traditions

    Geoffrey K Pullum, William A LadusawARTICLEPublication of the American…1998

  • Vowel Charts and Central Vowel Transcriptions in American and IPA Traditions

    Geoffrey K Pullum, William A LadusawARTICLEPublication of the American…1998

    Research Article| December 01 1998 Vowel Charts and Central Vowel Transcriptions in American and IPA Traditions Geoffrey K. Pullum; Geoffrey K. Pullum Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google William A. Ladusaw William A. Ladusaw University of California, Santa Cruz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1998) 80 (1): 5–33. https://doi.org/10.1215/-80-1-5 Cite Icon…

  • The Principle of Phonology-Free Syntax

    Open AccessPhilip Miller, Philip H Miller et al.ARTICLEJournal of Linguistics1997Citada por: 7

    The Principle of Phonology-Free Syntax (PPFS) is a proposed universal principle of grammar that prohibits reference to phonological information in syntactic rules or constraints. Although many linguists have noted phenomena that appear to them to be in conflict with it, the appearances are misleading in all cases we have examined. This paper scrutinizes four instructive cases in French that appear to falsify the PPFS. Section 1 deals with the all…

  • The Morpholexical Nature of English to-Contraction

    Geoffrey K PullumARTICLELanguage1997Citada por: 7

    The forms represented orthographically as 〈wanna〉, 〈hafta〉, 〈gonna〉, 〈gotta〉, 〈oughta〉, 〈usta〉, and 〈sposta〉 have standardly been analyzed as involving a syntactic rule or cliticization operation called to -contraction. Occasionally it has been suggested that the forms in question have been iexicalized', i.e., WANNA and HAFTA are synchronically distinct lexemes from WANT and HAVE. I argue here that neither approach is correct. The syntactic accou…

  • Learnability, Hyperlearning, and the Poverty of the Stimulus

    Open AccessGeoffrey K PullumARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…1996

    Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Role of Learnability in Grammatical Theory (1996)