Geoffrey Nunberg

Geoffrey Nunberg (born June 1, 1945 – August 11, 2020) is an American linguist and an adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information. Nunberg has taught at Stanford University and served as a principal scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center from the mid-1980s to 2000.

Quotes

 * Psychoanalysis is unlikely to be repealed; people are not going to go back to reading novels in order to understand themselves and their lives.
 * Geoffrey Nunberg (1983) The Decline of Grammar, The Atlantic, December 1983