Norvin Richards received his Ph.D. 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).
Introduction to Syntax | LSA.309
MW 8:15-9:55
Six Week Course |
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