Luigi Rizzi (linguist)

Luigi Rizzi (born 3 June 1952 in Genoa) is an Italian linguist.

Rizzi is currently a full professor at the University of Siena in Italy. He studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore, the University of Pisa and the . Before moving to Siena, Rizzi was a full professor at the University of Geneva.

Rizzi is co-director of the journal Rivista di grammatica generativa. His research is mainly concerned with the theory of syntax and language acquisition, and he has made a notable contribution to the theory of locality, parametric comparative syntax and the cartography of syntactic structures.

Selected bibliography

• Issues in Italian Syntax (1982). Dordrecht: Foris.
• Relativized Minimality (1990). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• The Structure of CP and IP: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Vol. 2 (ed.) (2004). Oxford: OUP.

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