A Companion to Chomsky. Группа авторов
Puig‐Mayenco holds a Lecturer Position at King's College London. His research focuses on bi‐/multilingualism during the lifespan. Specifically, he is interested in how previously acquired languages affect the initial stages and subsequent development of additive sequential multilingualism in childhood and adulthood.
Gereon Müller is a Professor of General Linguistics at Universität Leipzig. His main research interest is grammatical theory, with a special focus on syntax and morphology. An underlying assumption that guides his research is that both these systems are organized derivationally, with Chomsky's Strict Cycle Condition at the core.
Frederick J. Newmeyer is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington and Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. He is the author or editor of 12 books, including Linguistic Theory in America, Language Form and Language Function, and Possible and Probable Languages. In 2002, Newmeyer was President of the Linguistic Society of America.
Lisa Pearl is a Professor of Language Science at the University of California, Irvine. Her primary interests are in language acquisition and quantitative approaches to language science, including computational developmental modeling. She has authored 47 scholarly publications on these topics and maintains a YouTube channel with videos discussing related research ideas and educational content.
Paul M. Pietroski is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and a Member of the Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. He is also Professor Emeritus in Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Maryland. His most recent book is Conjoining Meanings: Semantics without Truth Values.
Anne Reboul is a Senior Researcher at the National Center for Research Science (CNRS) in France. She is the head of her laboratory, the Institute for Cognitive Science‐Marc Jeannerod, in Lyons. She is mainly interested in philosophy of language and pragmatics with a strong interest in language evolution. Her last book, Cognition and Communication in the Evolution of Language, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017.
Charles Reiss is a Phonologist at Concordia University, Montreal, and a Founding Member of the Concordia Center for Cognitive Science. His publications include Phonology: A Formal Introduction (with semanticist Alan Bale); I‐language: An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive Science (with syntactician Dana Isac); and The Phonological Enterprise (with historical linguist Mark Hale).
Georges Rey is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland at College Park. He has written some sixty articles and a book, Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: a Contentiously Classical Approach, on the foundations of cognitive science, and has just completed a new book for Oxford University Press, Representation of Language: Philosophical Issues in a Chomskyan Linguistics.
Joel Rogers is the Chomsky Professor of Law, Political Science, Public Affairs and Sociology, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He also directs COWS, a national strategy center on “high‐road” development. This uses better democratic organization to reconcile, even in competitive markets, interest in fairness, sustainability, and public accountability by increasing the multifactor productivity of places and sharing its benefit. A widely published academic, he is also a long‐time social activist.
Jason Rothman is Professor of Linguistics at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway and Adjunct Professor of Psycholinguistics at Universidad Nebrija (Madrid). At UiT, he directs the Psycholinguistics of Language Representation (PoLaR) lab and is deputy director of the AcqVA Aurora Centre. He primarily works on language acquisition and processing across the life span as well as language induced/associated links to neurocognition in various bilingual/ multilingual populations.
Peter Sells is Professor of Linguistics at the University of York. His primary interests are in comparative syntactic theory and the relation between syntax and morphology.
Michelle Sheehan is Professor of Linguistics at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK. Her research is focused on comparative syntax, notably word order asymmetries, nonfinite embedding, and extraction restrictions. She has published in Linguistic Inquiry, Syntax, Journal of Linguistics, The Linguistic Review, Glossa, and with Oxford, Cambridge and MIT presses.
Roumyana Slabakova is Professor and Chair of Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton and Adjunct Research Professor at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. She investigates the interfaces of form and meaning in the linguistic competence of adult second language learners, heritage speakers and multilinguals. Her book Second Language Acquisition was published by Oxford University Press in 2016.
Neil Smith was Head of Linguistics at UCL for a third of a century until his retirement in 2006. He worked on West African languages, the acquisition of phonology, the savant syndrome, the thought of Noam Chomsky, and anything else that looked fun, from birdsong to bananas.
Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares is a PhD Marie Curie Student from the MultiMIND network based at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz, Germany. His research agenda involves, among others, the neural systems underlying bi‐ and multilingualism and third language transfer. He is currently using neuroimaging methodologies combined with behavioral techniques to advance the field of multilingualism and to improve foreign language pedagogy.
Peter Svenonius is a Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics at the UiT, The Arctic University of Norway. He works on syntax and its interfaces with semantics, morphology, and phonology.
Rosalind Thornton is a Professor at Macquarie University. Her work focuses on children's acquisition of syntax and semantics within the biolinguistic framework of linguistics.
Patrick C. Trettenbrein is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Neuropsychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. His main research interest is the neurobiology of language, currently focusing on sign language and modality (in)dependence of linguistic computations in the brain. Moreover, he is interested in how brains compute more generally.
Ianthi Maria Tsimpli is Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. She works on multilingualism, first and second language acquisition, language impairment, attrition, language processing and the interaction between language, cognitive abilities, education, and print exposure.
Veno Volenec is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). His research mainly focuses on phonology, phonetics, and their relationship.
Deirdre Wilson is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at University College London. Her main research interests are in communication and theoretical pragmatics: her long‐standing collaboration with Dan Sperber (Relevance: Communication and Cognition; Meaning and Relevance) has led to publications on a wide variety of pragmatic topics, from disambiguation and reference resolution to rhetoric, style and the interpretation of literary works. Her novel Slave of the Passions was shortlisted for two prizes, and she has just completed a second.
Emiliano Zaccarella is Group Leader in the Department of Neuropsychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. He is primarily interested in understanding the general organizational principles of linguistic combinatorial abstraction in the human brain.
Acknowledgments
The editors are very grateful to all authors for their contributions and their patience throughout the editing process.
All chapters have been peer‐reviewed, and we would like to thank everyone who kindly agreed to review a chapter, specifically David Adger, Tor Anders Åfarli, Robyn Carston, John Collins (multiple entries), Anne Dahl, Anna Drożdżowicz,