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Norvin Richards

Professor of linguistics

areas of expertise: syntax, endangered languages, austronesian languages

Norvin RichardsNorvin Richards received his PhD in 1997 from MIT and is associate professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT.

He is interested in a variety of topics in syntax, including the syntax of wh-movement and the syntax-phonology interface, and has done fieldwork on a number of languages.

He is the author of Movement in Language: Interactions and Architectures (Oxford University Press, 2001), Featural Cyclicity and the Ordering of Multiple Specifiers in Working Minimalism (MIT Press, 1999), and The Principle of Minimal Compliance (Linguistic Inquiry, 1998).

request an interview: Sarah McDonnell | 617-253-8923 | s_mcd@mit.edu