Richard S. Kayne

Richard Stanley Kayne is Professor of Linguistics in the Linguistics Department at New York University.

For the American private equity investor, see Richard Kayne (investor).
Richard Kayne
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materMIT (PhD)
Columbia University (AB)
Known forAntisymmetry
Scientific career
FieldsSyntax, Generative grammar
InstitutionsNew York University
City University of New York
University of Paris VIII
Doctoral advisorJohn R. Ross

Born in 1944,[1] after receiving an A.B. in mathematics from Columbia College, New York City in 1964, he studied linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving his Ph.D. in 1969. He then taught at the University of Paris VIII (1969–1986),[2] MIT (1986–1988) and the City University of New York (1988–1997), becoming Professor at New York University in 1997.[3]

He has made prominent contributions to the study of the syntax of English and the Romance languages[4] [5] [6] within the framework of transformational grammar.[7] His theory of Antisymmetry[8] has become part of the canon of the Minimalist syntax literature.

Publications
  • Movement and Silence, Oxford University Press, New York, 2005
  • (with Thomas Leu & Raffaella Zanuttini) Lasting Insights and Questions: An Annotated Syntax Reader, Wiley/Blackwell, Malde, Mass., 2014
  • Kayne, Richard S. (1994). The Antisymmetry of Syntax (Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 25). MIT Press.

References
  1. Noam Chomsky: A personal bibliography, p. 192, at Google Books
  2. The Languages and Linguistics of Europe, p. 877, at Google Books
  3. https://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/linguistics/documents/Kayne%200617%20CV.pdf
  4. Anne Zribi-Hertz. Les Pronoms: morphologie, syntaxe et typologie at Google Books
  5. R. Kayne "Person Morphemes and Reflexives in Italian, French and Related Languages" (2003) in C. Tortora (ed.) The Syntax of Italian Dialects, Oxford University Press, New York, 102-136 (also in Parameters and Universals)
  6. R. Kayne "Some Preliminary Comparative Remarks on French and Italian Definite Articles" (2008) in R. Freidin, C.P. Otero and M.L. Zubizarreta (eds.) Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory. Essays in Honor of Jean-Roger Vergnaud, MITPress, Cambridge, Mass., 291-321 (reprinted in Comparisons and Contrasts)
  7. Paths towards universal grammar: studies in honor of Richard S. Kayne at Google Books
  8. La linguistique cognitive, p. 32, at Google Books


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