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