Gerald James Michael Gazdar,FBA (born 24 February 1950) is a Britishlinguist andcomputer scientist.

He was educated atHeath Mount School,Bradfield College, theUniversity of East Anglia (BA, 1970) and theUniversity of Reading (MA, PhD).^[3]

Gazdar was appointed a lecturer at theUniversity of Sussex in 1975, and became Professor ofComputational Linguistics there in 1985. He retired in 2002.^{[citation needed]}

Gazdar definedLinear Indexed Grammars and pioneered, along with his colleagues Ewan Klein,Geoffrey Pullum andIvan Sag, the framework ofGeneralized Phrase Structure Grammars.

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