Gerald Gazdar

Gerald James Michael Gazdar (born 24 February 1950) is a linguist and computer scientist.

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

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. ukwhoswho.com. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (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 29 April 2015.
3. Gazdar, Gerald James Michael (1976). Formal pragmatics for natural language implicature, presupposition and logical form (PhD thesis). University of Reading.