The Biolinguistic Enterprise
New Perspectives on the Evolution and Nature of the Human Language Faculty
Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo and and Cedric Boeckx
Author Information
Anna Maria Di Sciullo is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Quebec in Montreal and the director of the Major Collaborative Research Initiative on Interface Asymmetries. She held visiting positions at MIT and at the University of Venice. She is the author of Asymmetry in Morphology (2005), UG and External Systems (2005), Asymmetry in Grammar (2003), Projections and Interface Conditions: Essays on Modularity (1997), and co-authored with Edwin Williams On the Definition of Word (1987). She is the founder of the International Network on Biolinguistics.
Cedric Boeckx is Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA), and a member of the Center for Theoretical Linguistics at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Most recently he was Associate Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University. He is the author of Islands and Chains (2003), Linguistic Minimalism (2006), Understanding Minimalist Syntax (2007), Bare Syntax (2008), and Language in Cognition (2009); and the founding co-editor, with Kleanthes K. Grohmann, of the Open Access journal Biolinguistics.
Contributors:
Robert C. Berwick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cedric Boeckx, Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies
Carlo Cecchetto, University of Milan-Bicocca
Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anna Maria Di Sciullo, University of Quebec in Montreal
Tecumseh Fitch, University of Vienna
Alessandra Giorgi, University Ca' Forcari of Venice
Cristina Guardiano, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Wolfram Hinzen, Durham University
Lyle Jenkins, Cambridge, USA
Richard S. Kayne, New York University
Howard Lasnik, University of Maryland
Richard Larson, University at Stony Brook
Giuseppe Longobardi, University of Trieste
Maria Rita Manzini, University of Florence
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, University of Arizona
Costanza Papagno, University of Milan-Bicocca
Leonardo M. Savoia, University of Florence
Juan Uriagereka, University of Maryland