Geoffrey Sampson

Geoffrey Sampson: Home Page

Hello! Summarizing myself in a dozen words, I am:

• an Englishman
• born in 1944
• a professional academic
• a politically-active British subject

This page gives access to other pages on:

• my life
• my career
• books I have written
  
  
• my recent professional activities:
  
  
  • “language instinct” and the nature/nurture debate
  • e-business
  • corpus linguistics
  • Good-Turing frequency estimation
  • parse evaluation
  • development of structure in children’s writing
  • questioning the axiom of well-defined language structure
  • downloadable research resources produced by our team (and allies)
  
  
• questions I am often asked about language and languages
• “Minds in Uniform” – on intellectual foundations of 21st-century neo-imperialism
• remarks on the death of learned journals
• why I am a Christian
• Whistleblowing for Health
• why are metropolitan élites politically irresponsible?
• how the British Government classed me as a dissident
• the truth behind the Wikipedia entry
• Did Odysseus live on Cephallonia?
• my logo

Clicking on my name at top or bottom of my other pages will return you to this home page.

Contact Details

postal address

Department of Informatics
University of Sussex
Falmer
BRIGHTON BN1 9QJ, England

telephone

+44 1273 678525

fax

+44 1273 671320

e-mail

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— Please note: this public e-mail address has strong spam filters in place. For instance, any messages must be personal to me alone. Messages to multiple addressees, or with any other spamlike features, will be discarded before I see them, without notification to the sender.

中文姓名:

散 復 生

── 這雙姓名是我最初中文老師取的。 周文王有「四友」, 一位是散宜生。 第 21 世紀姓散的, 或許只有我 !

Geoffrey Sampson

last changed 19 Aug 2008