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Carl Jesse Pollard (born June 28, 1947) is a Professor of
Linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...
at the
Ohio State University The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one ...
. He is the inventor of
head grammar Head grammar (HG) is a grammar formalism introduced in Carl Pollard (1984) Pollard, C. 1984. ''Generalized Phrase Structure Grammars, Head Grammars, and Natural Language''. Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, CA. as an extension of the context-f ...
and higher-order grammar, as well as co-inventor of
head-driven phrase structure grammar Head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG) is a highly lexicalized, constraint-based grammar developed by Carl Pollard and Ivan Sag. It is a type of phrase structure grammar, as opposed to a dependency grammar, and it is the immediate successor t ...
(HPSG). He is currently also working on convergent grammar (CVG). He has written numerous books and articles on formal
syntax In linguistics, syntax ( ) is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure (constituenc ...
and
semantics Semantics is the study of linguistic Meaning (philosophy), meaning. It examines what meaning is, how words get their meaning, and how the meaning of a complex expression depends on its parts. Part of this process involves the distinction betwee ...
. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford.


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Carl Pollard's website
1947 births Living people Linguists from the United States Syntacticians Ohio State University faculty {{US-linguist-stub