Peter W. Culicover is Professor of
Linguistics
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. Lingu ...
at
Ohio State University
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. He works in the areas of syntactic theory (particularly on the syntax of English), language learnability and computational modelling of language acquisition and language change.
Education
Culicover attended the City College of New York and graduated with a BA in mathematics in 1966. He earned his PhD from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern t ...
, where he studied under
Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American public intellectual: a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is ...
.
Career
He worked at Ohio State for the duration of his career, serving as the Chair of the Department of Linguistics, Director of the Center for Cognitive Science, and Associate Provost. He is now the Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Linguistics.
Awards
Culicover is a winner of
Humboldt Prize
The Humboldt Prize, the Humboldt-Forschungspreis in German, also known as the Humboldt Research Award, is an award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany to internationally renowned scientists and scholars who work outside of G ...
and the Distinguished Scholar Award of Ohio State University.
Selected works
*''English Focus Constructions and the Theory of Grammar'' (with Michael S. Rochemont; Cambridge University Press, 1990)
*''Principles and Parameters: An Introduction to Syntactic Theory'' (Oxford University Press, 1997)
*''Syntactic Nuts: Hard Cases in Syntax'' (Oxford University Press, 1999)
*''Dynamical Grammar'' (Oxford University Press, 2003)
*(with
Ray Jackendoff
Ray Jackendoff (born January 23, 1945) is an American linguist. He is professor of philosophy, Seth Merrin Chair in the Humanities and, with Daniel Dennett, co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He has always stra ...
) ''Simpler Syntax'' (Oxford University Press, 2005)
References
External links
Peter Culicover's webpage
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Linguists from the United States
Living people
Ohio State University faculty
Syntacticians
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America