Andrea Moro

Who is Andrea Moro?

Andrea Carlo Moro is an Italian linguist and neuroscientist.

He is currently full professor of general linguistics at the Institute for Advanced Study IUSS Pavia, Italy, director of NeTS and head of the Humanities. His main fields of research are syntax and neurolinguistics. His has pursued at least two distinct lines of research: the theory of syntax and the neurological correlates of syntax with the brain. For the first field, see the critical comments in Graffi, Hale - Keyser, Kayne, Richards and Chomsky among others. As for a critical evaluation of the second field see in particular the first chapter of Kandel et al; see also Kaan, 2002, Marcus 2003 and Newmeyer. By referring to these sources, one can synthetically outline Andrea Moro's work in the two fields as follows.

In the first field, he contributed to the theory of clause structure