Language, from a Biological Point of View

Cedric Boeckx is Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA), and a member of the Linguistics Department at the University of Barcelona. He is the author of numerous books, including Islands and Chains (2003), Linguistic Minimalism (2006), Understanding Minimalist Syntax (2007), Bare Syntax (2008), and Language in Cognition (2009); and the founding co-editor, with Kleanthes K. Grohmann, of the Open Access journal Biolinguistics.María del Carmen Horno-Chéliz is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Zaragoza. Her research has focused on the syntax/semantics interface. She is the author of Lo que la preposición esconde (2001). At present she is interested in the nature of the lexicon and its relationships with syntactic computation, and with memory and cognition.José-Luis Mendívil-Giró is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Zaragoza. He was the main researcher working on the project Typology and Internal Variation of the Case and Agreement Systems in the World’s Languages, and is the author of Gramática natural. La gramática generativa y la tercera cultura (2003), and Origen, evolución y diversidad de las lenguas. Una aproximación biolingüística (2009).