David Pesetsky

David Pesetsky
David Pesetsky

Born 1957
Fields Generative grammar
Institutions MIT, UMass Amherst
Alma mater MIT, Yale
Doctoral advisor Noam Chomsky
Notable awards Fellow of the AAAS

David Michael Pesetsky (born 1957) is Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics at MIT. He has published numerous articles and books within the framework of transformational grammar.

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