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Geoffrey Nunberg (Geoffrey David Nunberg) was born on 1 June, 1945, is an American linguist (1945–2020). Discover Geoffrey Nunberg's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

Popular As Geoffrey David Nunberg
Occupation Linguist, author
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 1 June 1945
Birthday 1 June
Birthplace N/A
Date of death 11 August, 2020
Died Place San Francisco, CA
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1945

Geoffrey Nunberg (June 1, 1945– August 11, 2020) was an American lexical semantician and author.

Nunberg was born in 1945 to his mother, a high school teacher, and his father, a commercial real estate worker.

He grew up in the suburbs of New York City, and as a teenager he was attracted to the growing beatnik scene in nearby Greenwich Village.

He graduated from Scarsdale High School to attend Columbia University, but left to pursue an art degree at the Art Students League of New York.

While in art school, he began writing as a side project but eventually left art school to re-enroll at Columbia from where he ultimately received his Bachelor's degree.

As a linguist, he is best known for his work on lexical semantics, in particular on the phenomena of polysemy, deferred reference and indexicality.

He also wrote extensively about the cultural and social implications of new technologies.

Nunberg's criticisms of the metadata of Google Books ignited a widespread controversy among librarians and scholars.

Nunberg was a frequent contributor to the collective blog Language Log.

1977

Nunberg received his doctorate from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1977 for his dissertation, The Pragmatics of Reference.

Prior to his PhD, Nunberg received a Bachelor's degree from Columbia College and a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania where he studied under William Labov.

Following his education, Nunberg began working as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California Berkeley and visiting professor at Stanford University.

1980

In the mid-1980s he moved to the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center where he worked until 2001.

Following Xerox, he returned to research at universities, returning to appointments at Stanford's Center for the Study of Language and Information and at Berkeley's School of Information.

1988

Nunberg commented on language, usage, and society for National Public Radio's Fresh Air program since 1988.

His commentaries on language also appeared frequently in The New York Times and other publications.

He was the emeritus chair of the American Heritage Dictionary usage panel.

2001

In 2001, he received the Linguistics, Language, and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistic Society of America for his contributions to National Public Radio's Fresh Air.

2004

Nunberg was the author of a number of popular books, among them Going Nucular: Language, Politics and Culture in Controversial Times (2004).

He is primarily known for his broadcast work interpreting linguistic science for lay audiences, though his contributions to linguistic theory are also well regarded.

2009

His books for general audiences include The Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture from NPR's Fresh Air, Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Controversial Times, Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show, and The Years of Talking Dangerously (2009).

He's one of the contributors to The Cambridge grammar of the English language.

2012

His last book, Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years, was published in August 2012.

The critic Malcolm Jones described Nunberg's method in that book as follows: "His means of studying the problem is utterly fresh: take a word, and the attitudes behind it and see where they came from and what they might say about us."

2020

Following a long battle with cancer, Nunberg died August 11, 2020.