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Boeckx, Cedric
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ICREA Research Professor at UB (Universitat de Barcelona). Humanities
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Cedric Boeckx is Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA), and a member of the Department of General Linguistics at the Universitat 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 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), Bare Syntax (2008), and Language in Cognition (2009), and the editor of numerous volumes. He is also the founding co-editor, with Kleanthes K. Grohmann, of the Open Access journal Biolinguistics, and the founding editor of the Oxford University Press monograph series 'Oxford Studies in Biolinguistics'.
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Research Interests
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My current research focuses on developing new ways of advancing the emerging biolinguistic program, a growing interdisciplinary enterprise seeking to uncover the biological foundations of the human language faculty. By giving a decidedly biological orientation to theoretical linguistics, I intend to facilitate integration among disciplines, and lead to better experimental testing of theoretical hypotheses. I exploit the full pluralism characteristic of the life sciences and Complex Systems to force a rethinking of long-held assumptions in theoretical linguistics, and hope to provide a model for other domains of cognitive science.
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KeyWords
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biolinguistics, theoretical and comparative linguistics
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