Gerald Gazdar Explained

Gerald Gazdar
Birth Name:Gerald James Michael Gazdar
Birth Date:24 February 1950
Workplaces:University of Sussex
Thesis Title:Formal pragmatics for natural language implicature, presupposition and logical form
Thesis Url:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.456358
Thesis Year:1976
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Doctoral Students:Ann Copestake,[1] Adam Kilgarriff
Known For:Generalized phrase structure grammars
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Gerald James Michael Gazdar, FBA (born 24 February 1950) is a British linguist and computer scientist.

Education

He was educated at Heath Mount School, Bradfield College, the University of East Anglia (BA, 1970) and the University of Reading (MA, PhD).[2]

Career and research

Gazdar was appointed a lecturer at the University of Sussex in 1975, and became Professor of Computational Linguistics there in 1985. He retired in 2002.

Gazdar defined Linear Indexed Grammars and pioneered, along with his colleagues Ewan Klein, Geoffrey Pullum and Ivan Sag, the framework of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammars.

Notes and References

  1. DPhil. University of Sussex. The representation of lexical semantic information. Ann Alicia. Copestake. 1992. https://web.archive.org/web/20150429181024/https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~aac10/papers/thesis.pdf. 29 April 2015. 39162903.
  2. PhD. University of Reading. Formal pragmatics for natural language implicature, presupposition and logical form.. Gerald James Michael. Gazdar. 1976.