Gregory Garretson Linguistics, Programming, Editing, Translation, and Random Thingies

I like getting useful advice from others. And I like giving useful advice, too. There is no limit to the number of useful tips one can give. However, there are limits to the channels for giving such tips. It occurred to me that it might prove useful to have a “Tips” section on this website where I and others can provide tips on any topic that strikes our fancy.

For some years before going into linguistics, I worked as a writer, translator, editor and proofreader, mostly in the area of Spanish-English bilingual educational publishing. I still work as a freelance editor and translator in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

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My background is primarily in linguistics, but I have become an active computer programmer, working mostly on projects related to linguistics. I find that being both a developer and a linguist helps tremendously in the software design process.

I am currently working on my PhD in the Program in Applied Linguistics at Boston University, where I also received my master’s degree in linguistics.

My main areas of interest in linguistics are (broadly) discourse, pragmatics, semantics, and the phonetics-phonology interface. I am very interested in both corpus linguistics and computational linguistics and am a founding member of the group Computational Linguistics at Boston University.

You can always get me at this address:

If you want to call or send post, just send me an e-mail and I'll be happy to send you my info.