Professor Georgia M. Green
Biographical Information
Georgia Green is Professor of Linguistics and Professor, Beckman Institute.
She received her BA in Linguistics from the University of Chicago in
1966, and her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1971. She joined
the faculty at Illinois in 1971, after a year as a Fellow of the UIUC
Center for Advanced Study.
Research Areas
Professor Green's research is in pragmatics, syntactic theory, and in
language and the law.
Some Recent Publications and Work in Progress
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Georgia M, Green, Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding,
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. (1989; 2nd edition 1996)
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Georgia M. Green and Jerry L. Morgan, Practical Guide for Syntactic
Analysis, Stanford: CSLI. (1996)
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Jeffrey P. Kaplan and Georgia M. Green, "Grammar and inferences of rationality
in interpreting the child pornography statute." Washington University Law
Quarterly 73: 1223-1252.
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Georgia M. Green and Jerry L. Morgan, "Auxiliary inversion and the notion
`default interpretation.'" Journal of Linguistics 32 (1996)
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Georgia M. Green, "Ambiguity resolution and discourse interpretation."
Semantic ambiguity and underrepresentation, edited by Kees Van Deemter,
and Stanley Peters. Stanford: CSLI. (1996)
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Georgia M. Green, "Assessing techniques for analysis of
natural language use." Cognitive Science Technical Report UIUC-BI-CS-94-08
(Language Series) Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (1994)
- Georgia M. Green "The nature of pragmatic information." Grammatical interfaces
in HPSG, edited by Ronnie Cann, Claire Grover, and Philip Miller. Stanford, CSLI. (2000)
- Georgia M. Green, The structure of CONTEXT: The
representation of
pragmatic restrictions in HPSG. (click to download)
Proceedings of the 5th annual meeting of the
Formal Linguistics Society of the Midwest, edited by James Yoon. Studies
in the Linguistic Sciences. (1996)
- Georgia M. Green, Distinguishing Main and Subordinate Clause (click to download) (1996)
- Georgia M. Green, Carl Pollard's Ling. 795P notes (click to download) (1997)
- Georgia M. Green, Modelling Grammar Growth: Universal grammar without innate principles or parameters (click to download).
(Revised, expanded version of a paper originally prepared for for GALA97 conference on language acquisition, Edinburgh
(April 4-6, 1997). The first part of this paper condenses and refines material first presented
in Copenhagen in 1994; the second half expands it with a constraint-based
account of the acquisition of questions. The present version (July 2003)
is a draft prepared for a book on
non-transformational syntax edited by Robert Borsley and Kersti Borjars, to be published by Blackwells.)
- Green Chapter draft (September 2002) for book on
non-transformational syntax edited by Robert Borsley and Kersti Borjars, to be published by Blackwells.
- Georgia M. Green Discourse particles in NLP (November 2000) transcript of talk presented at The Ohio State University (Click to download; please do not quote without permission).
- Georgia M. Green (Pragmatic Motivation and Exploitation of Syntactic Rules (an incomplete and occasionally arbitrary catalog) (Click to view)
Courses
Address
US Mail
Georgia M. Green
Department of Linguistics
University of Illinois
4088 Foreign Languages Building
707 S. Mathews
Urbana, IL 61801
USA
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