British Academy Fellow: Geoffrey Pullum

Professor Geoffrey Pullum has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

He is Professor of General Linguistics in the School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences.

Professor Pullum joined the School in 2007. He now heads the Linguistics and English Language subject area.

Prior to this appointment, he worked at a number of higher education institutions in the US.

These include the University of Washington, Stanford University, Harvard University and the University of California.

It was in California where he built a reputation as one of the top four linguists in the US.

Professor Pullum also worked in Australia with Professor Rodney Huddleston FBA on “The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language”.

This book was published in 2002 and won the 2004 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award of the Linguistic Society of America.

Each year the British Academy elects to its Fellowship up to 38 UK-based scholars who have achieved distinction in the humanities and social sciences.