Geoffrey K. Pullum

Geoffrey Keith Pullum
Born	(1945-03-08) 8 March 1945 (age 79) Irvine, Scotland
Citizenship	British United States (since 1987)
Alma mater	University of York (B.A.) University of London (PhD)
Known for	The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language Language Log
Spouses	Joan E. Rainford (1967–93) Barbara C. Scholz (1994–2011) Patricia C. Shannon (2014–2016)
Partner	Joan Maling
Awards	Leonard Bloomfield Book Award (2004; shared with Rodney Huddleston) Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award (2009; shared with Mark Liberman)
Scientific career
Institutions	University College London (University of London) (1974–1982) Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (1981–1988) Ohio State University (1993) University of California, Santa Cruz (1981–2007) University of Edinburgh (2007–2020)
Thesis	Rule interaction and the organization of a grammar (1979)
Doctoral advisor	Neil Smith
Doctoral students	Desmond Derbyshire
Website	www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/

Geoffrey Keith Pullum (/ˈpʊləm/; born 8 March 1945) 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.^[1]

Pullum is a co-author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002),^[2] a comprehensive descriptive grammar of English. He was co-founder of Language Log and a contributor to Lingua Franca at The Chronicle of Higher Education, often criticizing prescriptive rules and linguistic myths.