Anna Maria Di Sciullo

Anna Maria Di Sciullo is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Quebec in Montreal and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is the founder of the Federation on Natural Language Processing, which brings together main actors in theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, and information technology, and of the International Network on Biolinguistics, bridging biology, linguistics, and natural language processing. She also cofounded Generative Mind, which aims to narrow down the gap between machine intelligence and human ability for language.

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Linguistics On Aspects of the Theory of Syntax [long_description] In the first essay for a new series on landmark texts, Anna Maria Di Sciullo revisits Noam Chomsky’s classic Aspects on the Theory of Syntax. Published in 1965, Aspects was a revelation, presenting linguists with what, at once, became the Standard Theory. It promoted linguistics into a science, one that accepted the methods and the standards of the hard sciences themselves.
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letter On Core Concepts and Terminology
In response to “Misused Terms in Linguistics”
[short_description] Although terminology issues are raised at the forefront, the crux of the matter with Evelina Leivada’s essay is not terminology per se, but different views of core concepts in linguistics.
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letter Unbounded Merge
In response to “The Siege of Paris”
[short_description] Could the language faculty have evolved gradually? Anna Maria Di Sciullo does not think so. In this letter, Di Sciullo traces past research of this idea, and looks at what is left to explore.

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