The Equilibrium of Human Syntax

Andrea Moro is Professor of General Linguistics and Director of the Center for Neurolinguistics and Theoretical Syntax (Ne.T.S.) at the Institute for Advanced Study IUSS – Pavia, Italy.

Part 1: Symmetry (Breaking) in Syntax 1. Toward a Unified theory of copular sentences 2. Elements of copular syntax 3. Copular sentences 4. Existential sentences and expletive there 5. A short history of be 6. Heads as Antecedents: A Brief History of The ECP 7. Dynamic Antisymmetry: movement as a symmetry-breaking phenomenon 8. Linear compression as a trigger for movement 9. Rethinking Symmetry: A Note on Labelling and the EPP 10. Clause Structure Folding and the "Wh-in-Situ Effect" 11. Notes on Vocative case: a case study in clause structure Part 2: The Boundaries of Babel: How the Brain Shapes Grammars 12. Syntax and the brain: disentangling grammar by selective anomalies 13. The Neural Cost of the Auditory Perception of Language Switches: An Event-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study in Bilinguals 14. Neural correlates for the acquisition of natural language syntax 15. Broca’s area and the language instinct 16. Syntax without language: neurobiological evidence for cross-domain syntactic computations 17. Negation in the brain: modulating action representations 18. Can syntax appear in a mirror (system)? 19. "Kataptation" or the QWERTY-effect in language evolution 20. A closer look at the Turtle’s eyes