Abstract
Guglielmo Cinque is an emeritus professor at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. He is one of the leading figures in generative syntax, and the most prominent representative of generative syntactic typology. He is one of the founders of the cartographic enterprise.His publications include Typological Studies. Word Order and Relative Clauses (2013, Routledge), The Syntax of Adjectives. A Comparative Study (2010, MIT Press), Restructuring and Functional Heads. The Cartography of Syntactic Structures (2006, OUP), Adverbs and Functional Heads. A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (1999, OUP), Italian Syntax and Universal Grammar (1995, CUP), Types of Ā-dependencies (1990, MIT Press). He has published extensively on every aspect of Italian syntax and syntax in general.
Highlights
Guglielmo Cinque is an emeritus professor at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice
GC: The study of linguistic variation is an essential part of the effort to reconstruct UG, to have a more precise idea of what can vary and what cannot, and, as Richard Kayne has shown in his work and has stressed explicitly, “to exploit those differences as a new and often exciting source of evidence bearing on the characterization and delineation of the principles of UG” (Kayne 2005: 3)
Within a Minimalist perspective (Chomsky 1995 and subsequent work), one of the challenges we are confronted with is whether all or most variation can be reduced to different movement options and to differences in pronunciation/non-pronunciation of functional elements encoded in the lexicon
Summary
Guglielmo Cinque is an emeritus professor at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice He is one of the leading figures in generative syntax, and the most prominent representative of generative syntactic typology. A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (1999, OUP), Italian Syntax and Universal Grammar (1995, CUP), Types of Ā-dependencies (1990, MIT Press). GC: While there should in principle be no preclusion to the kind of evidence one can use to deepen our understanding of language, in my mind one type of evidence has a privileged status in representing a more reliable source of data: the judgments a linguist can produce concerning his or her own native language Even this gives no protection from errors nor guarantee of success, but is perhaps the best
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