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Boeckx, Cedric
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ICREA Research Professor at UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Social Sciences
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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 Autònoma 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). He is also the founding co-editor, with Kleanthes K. Grohmann, of the Open Access journal Biolinguistics.
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Research Interest
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My main interest lies in developing an adequate theory of linguistic knowledge that illuminates our understanding of the human mind/brain, and ultimately biology. I investigate (i) principles that appear to condition the way words are put together to form sentences in all languages ("syntactic universals") and (ii) points of variation among languages of the world ("parameters"). I am interested in developing a formally rigorous and explicit theory of our faculty of language that draws on and at the same time informs other cognitive functions and (theoretical) biology in general. I am also interested in language development and language change, and how these domains relate to questions of evolution.
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KeyWords
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biolinguistics, theoretical and comparative linguistics
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ERC Codes
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Humanities, Social Sciences
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