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–   Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University (Chair 1999-2004). Affiliated Faculty, Department of Philosophy.

Other Professional Experience

2011	Faculty, LSA Linguistic Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder.
2011	Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Vigo, Spain. May.
2010	Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Osnabrück, Germany, July.
2010	Visiting Professor, Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University. May.
2009	Faculty, LSA Linguistic Institute, University of California, Berkeley.
2008	Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. June.
2007	Faculty, LSA Linguistic Institute, Stanford University.
2003	Faculty, LSA Linguistic Institute, Michigan State University.
1997	Faculty, LSA Linguistic Institute, Cornell University.
1996	Visiting Professor, UFR Angellier (Department of English), Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille 3.
1993	Faculty, LSA Linguistic Institute, The Ohio State University.
1991 - 97	Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University.
1986 - 97	Consultant, AT&T Labs - Research (formerly AT&T Bell Laboratories); Murray Hill, New Jersey.
1986 - 91	Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University.
1985 - 86	Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, San Diego State University.

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]

	Ward, Gregory, Ryan Doran, Meredith Larson, Rachel Baker, Yaron McNabb, and Matthew Berends. "An Experimental Basis for Distinguishing among Contextually-Determined Aspects of Utterance Meaning," under review.
2011.	Ward, Gregory and Betty J. Birner. "Discourse Effects of Word Order Variation," in Handbook of Semantics, edited by Paul Portner, Claudia Maienborn and Klaus von Heusinger. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. In press.
2011.	Birner, Betty J. and Gregory Ward. "Information Structure and Syntactic Structure," in Language and Linguistics Compass. In press.
2011.	Ward, Gregory, Ryan Doran, Meredith Larson, Rachel Baker, and Yaron McNabb. "Caught in the Semantic-Pragmatic Crossfire: Literal Lucy to the Rescue," in Proceedings of the 2008 Invitational Symposium on Variation in English Conference, Bamberg, Germany. In press.
2011.	Ward, Gregory, Christopher Ahern, and Tom Hayden. "An Empirical Investigation of Typicality and Uniqueness Effects on Article Choice in Attributive-Possession NPs," in Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. In press.
2010.	Ward, Gregory. "Brave New Would," in Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. In press.
2009.	Doran, Ryan, Rachel Baker, Yaron McNabb, Meredith Larson, and Gregory Ward. "On the Non-Unified Nature of Scalar Implicature: An Empirical Investigation," in International Review of Pragmatics 1:1-38.
2009.	Larson, Meredith, Ryan Doran, Yaron McNabb, Rachel Baker, Matthew Berends, Alex Djalali, and Gregory Ward. "Distinguishing the said from the implicated Using a Novel Experimental Paradigm," in Semantics and Pragmatics: From Experiment to Theory, edited by Uli Sauerland and Kazuko Yatsushiro. Berlin: Palgrave MacMillan. Pp. 74-93.
2008.	Kehler, Andrew and Gregory Ward. "Event Reference and Morphological Transparency," in Proceedings of the 2007 Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 2007), University of California – San Diego. Pp. 115-127.
2008.	Ward, Gregory. “Equatives and Deferred Reference,” in Reference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Jeanette Gundel and Nancy Hedberg. [New Directions in Cognitive Science series.] Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 73-92.
2007.	Birner, Betty J., Jeffrey P. Kaplan, and Gregory Ward. "Functional Compositionality and the Interaction of Discourse Constraints," in Language 83:323-349.
2007.	Julia Hirschberg, Agustín Gravano, Ani Nenkova, Elisa Sneed, and Gregory Ward. "Intonational Overload: Uses of the Downstepped (H* !H* L- L%) Contour in Read and Spontaneous Speech," in Laboratory Phonology 9, edited by Jennifer Cole and José I. Hualde. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 455-482.
2007.	Ward, Gregory, Jeffrey P. Kaplan, and Betty J. Birner. "Epistemic would, Open Propositions, and Truncated Clefts," in Topics on the Grammar-Pragmatics Interface, edited by Nancy Hedberg and Ron Zacharski. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 77-90.
2006.	Birner, Betty J. and Gregory Ward, co-editors. 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. ìReferring Expressions and Conversational Implicature,î in Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean Studies in Pragmatics and Semantics in Honor of Laurence R. Horn, edited by Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 183-200.
2006.	Ward, Gregory and Betty J. Birner. “Information Structure,” in Handbook of English Linguistics, edited by Bas Aarts and April McMahon. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Pp. 291-317.
2006.	Horn, Laurence R. and Gregory Ward. “On the Other Hand: A Reply to Some Reflections on a Recent Handbook,” in Intercultural Pragmatics 3-1:107-110.
2006.	Ward, Gregory. “Comments on 'Unaccommodating Presuppositions: A NeoGricean View' by Barbara Abbott”. [This paper is available in pdf format; click here to obtain a copy: Ward 2006.]

Professional Activities

Member of the Board of Advisory Editors for Journal of Pragmatics. 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. Served as Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Secretary-Treasurer (2004-07) and Member of the Executive Committee (1997-99). Elected Fellow of the LSA in 2009.