Our research aims to discover the rules and representations underlying the structure of particular languages and what they reveal about the general principles that determine the form and development of language in the individual and the species.


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Wang defends!
Last week, Ruoan Wang successfully defended her dissertation entitled Proxies and Social Meaning! Below is Ruoan’s abstract: This dissert...
MIT @ SALT 35
The 35th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory was held at Harvard University on May 20-22, 2025. MIT linguistics was well represent...
John Frampton 1937-2025
Sad news has reached us of the death on May 10 of John Frampton, an important figure in linguistic research on both syntax and phonology ...
Wang defends!
Last week, Ruoan Wang successfully defended her dissertation entitled Proxies and Social Meaning! Below is Ruoan’s abstract: This dissert...
MIT @ SALT 35
The 35th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory was held at Harvard University on May 20-22, 2025. MIT linguistics was well represent...
John Frampton 1937-2025
Sad news has reached us of the death on May 10 of John Frampton, an important figure in linguistic research on both syntax and phonology ...
Wang defends!
Last week, Ruoan Wang successfully defended her dissertation entitled Proxies and Social Meaning! Below is Ruoan’s abstract: This dissert...
MIT @ SALT 35
The 35th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory was held at Harvard University on May 20-22, 2025. MIT linguistics was well represent...
John Frampton 1937-2025
Sad news has reached us of the death on May 10 of John Frampton, an important figure in linguistic research on both syntax and phonology ...

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