Gregory Ward

Gregory Ward is an American linguist, academic and researcher. He is Professor of Linguistics, Gender & Sexuality Studies and, by courtesy, Philosophy at Northwestern University.

Ward's primary research revolves around pragmatics, with emphasis on the pragmatic meaning associated with particular syntactic constructions and intonational contours. He is a collaborative author of ''The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language'', has co-authored ''Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order in English'', authored ''The Semantics and Pragmatics of Preposing'', and co-edited ''Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean Studies in Pragmatics and Semantics in Honor of Laurence R. Horn''.

He is a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) and served as its Secretary-Treasurer from 2004 - 2007. Provided by Wikipedia