Boeckx, Cedric

Humanities

Universitat de Barcelona (UB)

Phone 934033782

Email cedric.boeckx@ub.edu

Department Departament de Filologia Catalana i Lingüística General

Address Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585

Keywords

cognitive biology
theoretical and comparative linguistics
cognitive sciences
ethology

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Short biography

Cedric Boeckx is Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA), a member of the Universitat de Barcelona Institute of Complex Systems (UBICS), and a member of the section of General Linguistics at the Universitat de Barcelona. Before joining ICREA, he was Associate Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books, including Islands and Chains (2003), Linguistic Minimalism (2006), Bare Syntax (2008), Language in Cognition (2009), Syntactic Islands (2012), Elementary Syntactic Structures (2014), Reflections on Language Evolution (2021), and the editor of numerous volumes. He serves as Principal Investigator of the "Cognitive Biology of Language" research group.