Andrea Moro

Andrea Moro is Professor of general linguistics the Scuola Normale in Pisa and IUSS in Pavia. A Ph.D. in Padua, he also obtained a diplôme d'études supérieures at the Université de Genève. He has been “visiting scientist” at Harvard and MIT as a “Fulbright” scholar several times. He contributed to theoretical linguistics and neurolinguistics: he reveled symmetry properties of syntax and discovered the neurobiological correlates of impossible languages, along with the electrophysiological signal of basic syntactic structures. He is a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (Rome), the Pontifical Academy of Arts and Letters (Vatican) and the Academia Europæa (London). He published in Nature, PNAS and Linguistic Inquiry; his scientific essays include The Raising of Predicates (Cambridge University) and Dynamic Antisymmetry (MIT Press); among his trade books: The Boundaries of Babel (MIT Press), A Brief History of the Verb to be (MIT Press), I speak therefore I am (Columbia University Press), Impossible Languages (MIT Press); his first novel The Secret of Pietramala (La Nave di Teseo) won the Flaiano Prize for Literature.