Guglielmo Cinque
Guglielmo Cinque(born 1948 inLa Spezia) is an Italianlinguistand professor of linguistics at theCa' Foscari University of Venice.He is one of the leading figures in modernminimalist syntax.
Cinque studiedliteratureand linguistics at theUniversity of Venice,at theUniversity of Padua,and at theUniversity of California, Berkeley.Since 1981 he has been a professor at the Ca' Foscari University. He is an honorary member of theLinguistic Society of America.
Cinque works in the fields ofgenerative grammarandlanguage typology.Together withLuigi Rizzihe belongs to the founding figures ofcartographic syntax,a research area devoted to the fine structure of languages. He is the editor (together withRichard Kayne) of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax.
Selected bibliography
[edit]- Cinque, G. (1999): Adverbs and Functional Heads. A Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Oxford University Press.
- Cinque, G. (1990): Types of Ā-dependencies. MIT Press.
