Juan Uriagereka

Juan Uriagereka is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. His publications on the evolution and architecture of language include Syntactic Anchors: On Semantic Structuring (2008) and Spell-Out and the Minimalist Program (2012).

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In response to “Misused Terms in Linguistics”
[short_description] The situation may be even worse than Evelina Leivada alluded to, whether we are speaking of parameters, features, or, for that matter, rules, as linguists did in the not-too-distant past.
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Linguistics Kept in Mind [long_description] When it comes to the neuroprocessing of language, Juan Uriagereka argues, we know more than we knew, but less than we had hoped. This can clearly be seen in a new book, Angela Friedrici’s Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity.
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Linguistics The Recovery of Case [long_description] Jean-Roger Vergnaud’s famous 1977 letter to Noam Chomsky and Howard Lasnik assumed that case is obligatory. As Juan Uriagereka and David Berlinski argue, Vergnaud’s case filter was a vindication of the principles and parameters approach to language. Case is an aspect of Universal Grammar itself.

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