Jean-Yves Pollock (born 18 February 1946 in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

) is a French

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

. A specialist in comparative

syntax In linguistics, syntax () is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure ( constituency) ...

, Pollock is best known for his work on

verb A verb () is a word (part of speech) that in syntax generally conveys an action (''bring'', ''read'', ''walk'', ''run'', ''learn''), an occurrence (''happen'', ''become''), or a state of being (''be'', ''exist'', ''stand''). In the usual descri ...

movement and the structure of IP in

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and

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References

* (2004), (with C Poletto), "On the Left Periphery of some Romance Wh-questions" in L Rizzi ed. The Structure of CP and IP, Oxford University Press * (1989), "Verb Movement, Universal Grammar and the Structure of IP", Linguistic Inquiry 20.3 pp 365–424 * (1997), Language et cognition; Introduction au programme minimaliste de la grammaire générative, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris Linguists from France Living people Syntacticians 1946 births {{france-linguist-stub