Rodney Huddleston has spent most of his career at the University of Queensland, where he was awarded a Personal Chair in Linguistics in tggo. Amongst many other distinctions, he is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and was a recipient of his university's award for excellence in teaching in its inaugural year. He has published widely in the field of English grammar and linguistics.
Geoffrey K. Pullum is Professor ofceneral Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh and Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. During his as years ofworking in the United States he was elected a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and held Fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
He moved to the University of Edinburgh in 2007. His numerous publications in linguistics include a dozen books and more than zoo articles, many of them on English syntax.