Alec Marantz

Alec Marantz

Alec Marantz, an American linguist.

Until 2007, Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Research Director of KIT/MIT MEG Joint Research Lab.

Since 2007, Professor of Linguistics and Psychology at New York University.

In the early 1990s proposed (together with Morris Halle) a theory of architecture of Grammar known as Distributed morphology.

More recently, he has been an influential figure in the use of magnetoencephalography to study human language processing, particularly morphology and the mental lexicon.

External links

* [http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~rnoyer/dm/ Distributed Morphology]
* [http://web.mit.edu/kitmitmeg/ KIT/MIT MEG Joint Research Lab]
* [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~ma988/marantz_publications.html Recent Publications]


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