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Guy Carden is a retired Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia. He received his AB cum laude in Linguistics Mathematics from Harvard University in 1966 and completed his PhD in Linguistics at Harvard in 1970. Carden has held various academic positions including Research Scientist at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Visiting Lecturer at Yale University, and Assistant Professor at several institutions. He has taught a wide range of courses encompassing general linguistics, syntax, semantics, psycholinguistics, and applied linguistics at prestigious universities. His research interests focus on syntactic and semantic theory, English syntax and semantics, and language acquisition, among others. Carden's scholarly works include a book titled "English Quantifiers: Logical Structure Linguistic Variation" and numerous influential papers published in leading linguistics journals. He has served as a consultant in theoretical computational linguistics and has contributed significantly to the field of linguistics through various research endeavors and teaching roles.
University of British Columbia, Department of Linguistics • Vancouver, BC, Canada
Served as Head from 1980 to 1983, and taught numerous undergraduate and graduate courses in linguistics.
Yale University, Department of Linguistics • New Haven, CT, USA
Yale University, Department of Linguistics • New Haven, CT, USA
Yale University, Department of Linguistics • New Haven, CT, USA
Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories • Bedford, MA, USA
Harvard University, Department of Linguistics • Cambridge, MA, USA
Washington State University, Department of English • Pullman, WA, USA
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