Luigi Rizzi (linguist)
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Luigi Rizzi (born 3 June 1952 in Genoa) is an Italian linguist.
Rizzi is currently a full professor at the University of Siena in Italy. He studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore, the University of Pisa and the University of Paris VIII. Before moving to Siena, Rizzi was a full professor at the University of Geneva.
Rizzi is co-director of the journal Rivista di grammatica generativa. His research is mainly concerned with the theory of syntax and language acquisition, and he has made a notable contribution to the theory of locality, parametric comparative syntax and the cartography of syntactic structures.
Biography
[edit]He studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and at the University of Pisa, furthering his studies at the Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis. He is full professor of general Linguistics, grammatical theory and language acquisition at the University of Siena. He has taught at the linguistics departments of several European and American universities and has been an associate professor at MIT and a full professor at the University of Geneva, with which he still collaborates.
He works on Syntax theory and comparative syntax of Romance languages and Germanic languages; he has contributed in particular to the development of the parametric approach to syntactic comparison, locality theory and the study of syntactic representations.
Together with Guglielmo Cinque, he is considered the leading Italian exponent of generative grammar, within which he has sponsored the development of a research program consisting of a particular approach to the study of syntax called “cartographic.”[1]
Selected bibliography
[edit]- Issues in Italian Syntax (1982). Dordrecht: Foris.[2]
- Relativized Minimality (1990). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.[3]
- The Structure of CP and IP: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Vol. 2 (ed.) (2004). Oxford: OUP.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/v6-cinque
- ^ Rizzi, Luigi (1982). Issues in Italian syntax. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 90-70176-33-5.
- ^ Rizzi, Luigi (1990). Relativized minimality. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-68061-0.
- ^ Rizzi, Luigi (2004). The structure of CP and IP. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515948-9.
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