San Duanmu
When I was in the program (1986-1990), the broad question I most wanted to get an answer to was how to obtain greater generalizations towards language universals. In my dissertation, I addressed the...
View ArticleBob Fiengo
As it happens, there was a very broad question that I was worried about when I was at MIT in the early seventies. I can’t remember how I would have phrased the question at that time, but I would now...
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Joe Emonds
The fundamental aim in the linguistic analysis of a language … …is to separate the grammatical sequences which are the sentences of from the ungrammatical sequences which are not sentences of and to...
View ArticleAkira Watanabe
What was the broad question that you most wanted to get an answer to during your time in the program? The only broad question I was interested in when I was a graduate student is, what shape does UG...
View ArticleLuigi Rizzi
During my years at MIT (1983-1985 and Fall 1986 as faculty member, 1977 – 1981 as visiting scholar), I mainly worked on two research topics: the theory of silent syntactic positions (null pronominals...
View ArticleK. P. Mohanan
What was the broad question that you most wanted to get an answer to during your time in the program? Following Chomsky, I assume that: generative linguistic theory is a theory of the biologically...
View ArticleRaj Singh
What was the broad question that you most wanted to get an answer to during your time in the program? The question I was hoping to answer when I got to MIT was: when we make pragmatic inferences, what...
View ArticleAndrés Pablo Salanova
What was the broad question that you most wanted to get an answer to during your time in the program? I was preoccupied to know what should be the correct relationship between linguistic theory and...
View ArticleHaj Ross
As a mathematical discipline travels far from its empirical source, or still more, if it is a second and third generation only indirectly inspired from ideas coming from ‘reality,’ it is beset with...
View ArticleGiuseppe Longobardi
I first came to MIT in the Fall 1979, under Noam’s urge after his visit to Pisa in the Spring of that year, and then I was a visiting Scholar several times (for about 6 terms between 1979 and 1989)....
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