Gerald Gazdar

Gerald Gazdar
Born Gerald James Michael Gazdar
(1950-02-24) 24 February 1950[1]
Institutions University of Sussex
Alma mater
Thesis Formal pragmatics for natural language implicature, presupposition and logical form (1976)
Doctoral students Ann Copestake[2]
Known for Generalized phrase structure grammars
Website
www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/982

Gerald James Michael Gazdar (born 24 February 1950) is a 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).[3]

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.

References

  1. GAZDAR, Prof. Gerald James Michael. Who's Who 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
  2. Copestake, Ann Alicia (1992). The representation of lexical semantic information (PDF) (DPhil thesis). University of Sussex. OCLC 39162903. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-29.
  3. Gazdar, Gerald James Michael (1976). Formal pragmatics for natural language implicature, presupposition and logical form. (PhD thesis). University of Reading.


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