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

Gerald Gazdar
Born
Gerald James Michael Gazdar

(1950-02-24) 24 February 1950 (age 74)[2]
Alma mater
Known forGeneralized phrase structure grammars
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Sussex
ThesisFormal pragmatics for natural language implicature, presupposition and logical form (1976)
Doctoral studentsAnn Copestake,[1] Adam Kilgarriff
Websitewww.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/982

Education

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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

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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.[citation needed]

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

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "GAZDAR, Prof. Gerald James Michael". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Gazdar, Gerald James Michael (1976). Formal pragmatics for natural language implicature, presupposition and logical form (PhD thesis). University of Reading.