Cedric Boeckx

Cedric Boeckx is Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), a member of the Linguistics section of the University of Barcelona, as well as of the university’s Institute of Complex Systems. He is the author of numerous books, including Islands and Chain (2003), Linguistic Minimalism (2006), Language in Cognition (2010), and Elementary Syntactic Structures (2014). His graduate training and early career were in cognitive science and theoretical linguistics, but his more recent work seeks a more direct engagement with biology and has a more explicit evolutionary focus.