Education

1985	Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania. Thesis: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Preposing.
1978	B.A. in Linguistics (with Honors) and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley. Graduated with Great Distinction in General Scholarship from the College of Letters & Sciences. Phi Beta Kappa.

Current Position
1997–present Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University (Chair 1999-2004).

Other Professional Experience

2007.	Visiting Professor, LSA Linguistic Institute, Stanford University.
2004-05.	Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
2003.	Visiting Professor, LSA Linguistic Institute, Michigan State University.
1997.	Visiting Professor, LSA Linguistic Institute, Cornell University.
1996.	Visiting Professor, UFR Angellier (Dept. of English), Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille.
1993.	Visiting Professor, LSA Linguistic Institute, The Ohio State University.
1986-97.	Consultant, AT&T Labs – Research (formerly AT&T Bell Labs); Murray Hill, NJ.

Selected Grants

2003-07.	Julia Hirschberg (PI) and Gregory Ward (Co-PI); "Dialog Prosody in Interactive Voice Response Systems"; National Science Foundation; total direct costs: $1,380,710; original project period: 9/1/03-8/31/06, extended to 8/31/07.
1991-96.	Gail McKoon (PI), Gregory Ward and Roger Ratcliff (Co-PIs); "Intonation and Sentence Processing" (CMS 5 R01 DC01240-01); NIDCD, Department of Health and Human Services; total direct costs approved: $520,243; project period: 9/1/91-8/31/96.

Selected Publications [last five years only]

2007.	Ward, Gregory, Jeffrey P. Kaplan, and Betty J. Birner. "Epistemic Would, Open Propositions, and Truncated Clefts," in The Grammar-Pragmatics Interface, edited by Nancy Hedberg and Ron Zacharski. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 77-90.
2007.	Birner, Betty J., Jeffrey P. Kaplan, and Gregory Ward. "Functional Compositionality and the Interaction of Discourse Constraints," in Language 83:323-349.
2006.	Ward, Gregory and Betty J. Birner. "Information Structure," in The Handbook of English Linguistics, edited by Bas Aarts and April McMahon. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Pp. 291-317.
2006.	Birner, Betty J. and Gregory Ward, eds. Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean Studies in Pragmatics and Semantics in Honor of Laurence R. Horn. Studies in Language Companion Series, Volume 80. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 354 pp.
2006.	Kehler, Andrew and Gregory Ward. "Referring Expressions and Conversational Implicature," in Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean Studies in Pragmatics and Semantics in Honor of Laurence R. Horn, edited by Birner, Betty J. and Gregory Ward. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 183-200.
2005.	Julia Hirschberg, Agus Gravano, Ani Nenkova, Elisa Sneed, and Gregory Ward. "Intonational Ooverload: Uses of the Downstepped (H* !H* L- L%) Contour in Read and Spontaneous Speech," to appear in Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Laboratory Phonology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
2005.	Ward, Gregory and Andrew Kehler. "Syntactic Form and Discourse Accessibility," in Anaphora Processing: Linguistic, Cognitive and Computational Modelling, edited by António Branco, Tony McEnery and Ruslan Mitkov. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, vol. 263. Pp. 365-384.
2004.	Ward, Gregory. "Equatives and Deferred Reference," in Language 80:262-289.
2004.	Horn, Laurence R. and Gregory Ward, eds. The Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 847 pp.
2004	Ward, Gregory and Betty J. Birner. "Information Structure and Noncanonical Syntax," in The Handbook of Pragmatics, edited by Laurence R. Horn and Gregory Ward. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Pp. 153-174.
2004.	Kehler, Andrew and Gregory Ward. "Constraints on Ellipsis and Event Reference," in The Handbook of Pragmatics, edited by Laurence R. Horn and Gregory Ward. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Pp. 383-403.
2003.	Ward, Gregory, Betty J. Birner, and Jeffrey P. Kaplan. "A Pragmatic Analysis of the Epistemic Would Construction in English," in Modality in Contemporary English, edited by Roberta Facchinetti, Manfred Krug and Frank Palmer. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 71-79.
2002.	Ward, Gregory, Betty J. Birner, and Rodney Huddleston. "Information Packaging," chapter 16 in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, edited by Geoff Pullum and Rodney Huddleston, et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 1363-1447. [Winner of the Linguistic Society of America Leonard Bloomfield Book Award for the period covering 2001-2003.]

Professional Activities

Served on the editorial board of Computational Linguistics, 1995-97. Series Editor for the series Language Today, published by Oxford University Press. Advisory Editor for the book series Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, published by Elsevier Science Press.

Secretary-Treasurer of the Linguistic Society of America (2004-07); Member of the Executive Committee (1997-99).