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Dr. Georgia M. Green

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Contact Information

University of Illinois
Dept. of Linguistics, MC-168
707 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
USA
Professor Emeritus

Additional Campus Affiliations

Highlighted Publications

Books

Green, Georgia M. Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding. Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, 1996.

Green, Georgia M. Semantics and Syntactic Regularity. Cambridge University Press, 1973.

Green, Georgia M, and Jerry L Morgan. Practical guide for Syntactic Analysis. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2001.

Book Contributions

Green, Georgia M. "How to get people to do things with words: The whimperative question." Syntax and Semantics 3: Speech Acts, edited by Jerry Morgan, edited by Peter Cole. Academic Press 1975, p. 107–141.

Green, Georgia M. "Some observations on the syntax and semantics of instrumental verbs." Papers from the Eighth Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago Linguistic Society, 1972, p. 83-97.

Green, Georgia M. "On too and either, and not ust too and either, either." Papers from the Fourth Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago Linguistic Society, 1973, p. 22-39.

Green, Georgia M. "A syntactic syncretism in English and French." Issues in Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Henry and Reneé Kahane, edited by Braj Kachru. University of Illinois Press, 1973, p. 257–278.

Green, Georgia M. "Colloquial and literary uses of inversions." Spoken and Written Language: Exploring Orality and Literacy, edited by Deborah Tannen. Ablex, 1982, p. 119-153.

Green, Georgia M, and Jerry L Morgan. "Pragmatics, grammar and discourse." Radical Pragmatics, edited by Peter Cole. Academic Press, 1981, p. 167-181.

Green, Georgia M. "Ambiguity resolution and discourse interpretation." Ambiguity and Underspecification, edited by Kees van Deemter, edited by Stanley Peters. CSLI Publications, 1996, p. 1-26.

Green, Georgia M. "Elementary principles of HPSG." Non-transformational Syntax: a guide to current models, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, p. 9-53.

"Modelling grammar growth: universal grammar without innate principles or parameters." Non-transformational Syntax: a guide to current models, edited by Kersti Borjars, edited by Robert Borsley. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, p. 378-403.

Green, Georgia M. "Discourse particles and the symbiosis of natural language processing and basic research." Drawing the boundaries of meaning: Neo-Gricean studies in pragmatics and semantics in honor of Laurence R. Horn, edited by Betty Birner, edited by Gregory Ward. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006, p. 117-136.

Morgan, Jerry L, and Georgia M Green. "Why verb agreement is not the poster child for any formal principle." Polymorphous linguistics: Jim McCawley's legacy, edited by Salikoko Mufwene, edited by Elaine Francis, edited by Rebecca Wheeler. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005, p. 455-478.

Levine, Robert D, and Georgia M Green. "Introduction." Studies in contemporary phrase structure grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

"The nature of pragmatic information." Grammatical interfaces in HPSG, edited by R. Cann, edited by C. Grover, edited by P Miller. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2000, p. 113-138.

Journal Articles

Green, Georgia M. "Main clause phenomena in subordinate clauses." Language, vol. 52, no. 2, 1976, p. 382-397.

Green, Georgia M. "Some wherefores of English inversions." Language, vol. 56, no. 3, 1980, p. 582-601.

Reviews

Cunningham, Clark D, Judith N Levi, Georgia M Green, and Jeffrey P Kaplan. "Plain meaning and hard cases." The Language of Judges by Lawrence Solan. Yale Law Review, vol. 103, no. 6, 1994, p. 1561-1625.

Edited Books

Davison, Alice, and Georgia M Green. Linguistic Complexity and Text Comprehension: Readability Issues Reconsidered. Routledge, 1988.

Levine, Robert D, and Georgia M Green. Studies in contemporary phrase structure grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Encyclopedia Entries

Green, Georgia M. "Syntax-pragmatics interface." Pragmatics encyclopedia, Abingdon: Routledge, 2009.

Green, Georgia M. "Discourse particles." Pragmatics encyclopedia, Abingdon: Routledge, 2009.

Green, Georgia M. "Meaning in language use." Semantics: An International handbook of natural language meaning. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2011.

Green, Georgia M. "Pragmatics and syntax." Handbook of pragmatics, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.