Anna Maria Di Sciullo (born 1951) is a professor in the

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Department at the

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and visiting scientist at the Department of Linguistics at

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. Her research areas are

Theoretical Linguistics Theoretical linguistics is a term in linguistics which, like the related term general linguistics, can be understood in different ways. Both can be taken as a reference to theory of language, or the branch of linguistics which inquires into the n ...

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and

Biolinguistics Biolinguistics can be defined as the study of biology and the evolution of language. It is highly interdisciplinary as it is related to various fields such as biology, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, mathematics, and neurolinguistics to ex ...

Field of research

Dr. Di Sciullo's contributions to Theoretical Linguistics are centered on asymmetry as a cornerstone of the Language Faculty. Her research on the asymmetry of morphological relations provides a further understanding of the regularity of form and interpretation of word internal argument, aspect and operator structures. Her publications include two MIT Press books on the centrality of asymmetrical relations in morpho-syntax. Her work in Computational Linguistics led to the formulation of the Asymmetry Recovering Parser, generating deterministic parses for linguistic expressions. She also developed a search engine sensitive to asymmetric relations, as well as a semantic mining system based on syntactic asymmetries and semantic compositionality. Her contributions to Biolinguistics target the sensitivity of the human brain to morpho-syntactic asymmetries as well as the role of experience on morpho-syntactic variation. In addition to her publications in Brain and Language and BMC Evolutionary Biology, she published in 2017 four volumes on Biolinguistics, Critical concepts in Linguistics covering major contributions in the field. Since 1998, she has directed Major Collaborative Research Initiatives highly funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and by the Fonds de recherche du Québec. In 2004 she founded the Federation on Natural Language Processing, bringing together main actors in the area of theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics and information technology, in 2007 she founded the International Network on Biolinguistics, bridging

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and

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. She has received numerous distinctions and awards, including the following. She has been elected Fellow of the

Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; french: Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bil ...

in 1999, recipient of the Research Award of the Board of Directors of the University of Quebec in 2001, visiting scholar positions at Harvard and MIT in 2012, recipient of the André Laurendeau award in Human Sciences in 2016, and recently nominated for the Governor General of Canada innovation award.

Selected bibliography

* Di Sciullo, Anna Maria, Marco Nicolis and Stanca Somesfalean. 2020. ''Comitative P''. In J. Garzonio and S. Rossi (Eds.), ''Variation in P, Comparative Approaches to Adpositional Phrases''. Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax. Oxford University Press. 218–244. * Di Sciullo, Anna Maria. 2019. ''Unbounded Merge''. Inference. International Review of Science, 4 (4). * Di Sciullo, Anna Maria. 2017 (Ed.). ''Biolinguistics. Critical Concepts in Linguistics''. Volume 1: ''Foundations''; Volume II: ''Language Development''; Volume III: ''Variation''; Volume IV: ''Complexity and Efficiency''. Routledge. Taylor and Francis. 1632p. * Di Sciullo, Anna Maria. 2017. ''Asymmetry and the language faculty''. Revista Linguística. ''Gramática Gerativa: celebrando os 60 anos de Syntactic Structures (1957- 2017)'', 13(2): 88–107. (ISSN 2238-975x) * Di Sciullo, Anna Maria and Lyle Jenkins. 2016. Biolinguistics and the Human Language Faculty. Language, 92(3): e1-e32. * Di Sciullo, Anna Maria and Stanca Somesfalean. 2015. ''Object Pronouns in the Evolution of Romanian: a Biolinguistic Perspective''. In V. Hill (Ed.), Formal Approaches to DPs in Old Romanian 269–290. Leiden, Boston. Brill. * Di Sciullo, A.M. 2015. ''On the Domain Specificity of the Human Language Faculty and the Effects of Principles of Computational Efficiency: Contrasting Language and Mathematics''. LinguiStica. 11 (1) 28–56. (ISSN 2238-975x) * Di Sciullo, Anna Maria. 2014. ''Minimalism and I-Morphology''. In Peter Kosta, Steven Franks and Teodora Radeva-Bork (Eds.), Minimalism and Beyond: Radicalizing the interfaces. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. * Di Sciullo, Anna Maria. 2011. ''A Biolinguistic Approach to Variation''. In A. M. Di Sciullo and C. Boeckx (Eds.), ''The biolinguistic Entreprise: New Perspectives on the Evolution and Nature of the Human Language Faculty'', 305–328. Oxford: Oxford University Press. * Di Sciullo, Anna Maria et al. 2010. ''The Biological Nature of Human Language''. Biolinguistics 4: 4-34. * Di Sciullo, Anna Maria and Dana Isac. 2008. ''The Asymmetry of Merge''. Biolinguistics 2: 260–290. * Di Sciullo, Anna Maria. 2005. ''Asymmetry in Morphology''. Cambridge. Mass: The MIT Press. * Di Sciullo, Anna Maria. 2003 (Ed.). Asymmetry in Grammar. vol. 1: Syntax and Semantics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 405p. , Asymmetry in Grammar. vol. 2: Morphology, Phonology, Acquisition. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 309p. * Di Sciullo, Anna Maria. 2000. ''Parsing Asymmetries''. Natural Language Processing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 1835:1-15. Dordrecht: Springer. * Di Sciullo, Anna Maria. 1996. ''Modularity and X0/XP Asymmetries''. Linguistic Analysis 26: 1-26. * Di Sciullo, Anna Maria. 1993. ''The Complement Domain of a Head at Morphological Form''. Probus: International Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics 5: 95–125. * Di Sciullo, Anna Maria and Edwin Williams. 1987. ''On the Definition of Word''. Cambridge. Mass: The MIT Press. * Di Sciullo, Anna Maria. 1986. ''Théorie et Description en Grammaire Générative''. Québec. Office de la langue française. 228 pp.

Selected awards and nominations

* 2017 Nominated for the Canadian Governor General award for innovation * 2016 Andre Laurendeau Award, ACFAS, Government of Quebec. * 2015 Ambassador of Abruzzi in the world, Government of Italy. * 2005-2018 Dynamic Interfaces (FQRSC I, II, III), Government of Quebec, $1.2M. * 2007 Founder and Director of the International Network in Biolinguistics. * 2003-2012 Interface Asymmetries (MCRI), SSHRC, Government of Canada, $2.5M. * 2004 Founder and President of the Federation on Natural Language Processing * 2001-2004 Natural language processing (VRQ), Government of Quebec, $1.2M. * 1999 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada * 1998-2003 Natural Language Asymmetries (MCRI), SSHRC, Government of Canada, $1.8M. * 1992-1996 The Modularity of Grammar: arguments, projections and variation, SSHRC, Government of Canada, $629577. * 1990 Award for Excellence in Research, awarded by the board of Governors of the University of Quebec.

Cited in

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http://asymmetryproject.uqam.ca/pdf/cv.pdf
Curriculum vitae of Professor Anna Maria Di Sciullo

External links

Laboratoire de recherche sur les asymétries d'interface

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