Name Gerald Gazdar | Institution University of Sussex Doctoral students Ann Copestake | |
Born Gerald James Michael Gazdar
February 24, 1950 ( 1950-02-24 ) Thesis Formal pragmatics for natural language implicature, presupposition and logical form (1976) Known for Generalized phrase structure grammars Books Pragmatics: Implicature, Presupposition and Logical Form, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar Alma mater University of East Anglia, University of Reading | ||
Institutions University of Sussex | ||
Gerald James Michael Gazdar (born 24 February 1950) is a linguist and computer scientist.
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Education
He was educated at Heath Mount School, Bradfield College, the University of East Anglia (BA, 1970) and the University of Reading (MA, PhD).
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.
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