Professor of Linguistics
Docteur ès Lettres 1976 (linguistics), Paris VIII; Ph.D. 1969 (linguistics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; A.B. 1964 (mathematics), Columbia. Honorary degree: Doctorate honoris causa 1995, Leiden (The Netherlands).

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Research Interests:

theoretical syntax, (micro-)comparative syntax, French/Italian syntax.

Affiliations:

Editor, Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax (Oxford University Press, New York) 1989- present; Chair, Section Z: Linguistics and the Language Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1994-1995.

Fellowships/Honors:

National Science Foundation Research Grant, Microparametric Variation in Romance Syntax, 1992-1996; Fulbright Chair in Theoretical Linguistics, University of Venice, Spring, 1995; Fulbright Lectureship, University of Rome, Spring, 1978.

Selected Works:

Parameters and Universals. New York: Oxford University Press. 2000.
Overt vs. Covert Movement. Syntax, 1. 1998. 128-191.
The Antisymmetry of Syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1994.
Toward a Modular Theory of Auxiliary Selection. Studia Linguistica, 47. 1993. 3-31.
Romance Clitics, Verb Movement and PRO. Linguistic Inquiry, 22. 1991. 647-686.
French Syntax: The Transformational Cycle. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1975.

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