Geoffrey K. Pullum

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Geoffrey Keith Pullum (; 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.

Pullum is a co-author of ''The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language'' (2002), 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. Provided by Wikipedia