November 17, 2003
Awards and Honors
Book coauthored by Professor Geoffrey Pullum wins
Linguistic Society Award
The Linguistic Society of America announced that The Cambridge Grammar
of the English Language, coauthored by UCSC linguistics professor
Geoffrey K. Pullum and published by Cambridge University Press, has
been selected as the winner of the seventh biannual Leonard Bloomfield
Book Award. Established in 1992, the award recognizes the volume which
"makes the most outstanding contribution to the development of
our understanding of language and linguistics."
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Geoffrey Pullum
Photo: Barbara C. Scholz |
The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) was founded in 1924 to advance
the scientific study of language. LSA is the largest linguistic society
in the world and is the only umbrella professional linguistics organization
in the U.S., with over 7,000 personal and institutional members.
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language is the first definitive
grammar reference book of standard international English in more than
20 years. It involved more than a decade of work by the authors, Rodney
Huddleston and Pullum, with the assistance of an international team
of a dozen contributing linguists. Firmly based on research in modern
linguistics, it rejects many errors of the older tradition, supporting
its departures from traditional grammar with reasoned arguments.
Pullum is a linguist specializing in the study of English, and has
published widely on the scientific study of language. He has authored
a dozen books and nearly 200 technical articles within the field of
linguistics.
The award will be presented at the LSA Business Meeting in January
during the organizations 78th Annual Meeting at the Sheraton Boston
Hotel.
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