Moro, Andrea Carlo

Profilo

Andrea Moro is Professor of general linguistics at IUSS - Pavia and the Scuola Normale in Pisa. He was a full professor at the “San Raffaele” University in Milan he contributed to found and an associate professor at the University of Bologna. A Ph.D. in Padua, a Fulbright scholarship holder, he obtained a diplôme d'études supérieures at the Université de Genève. He has been “visiting scientist” at MIT and Harvard several times. He contributed to theoretical linguistics and neurolinguistics: he reveled symmetry properties of syntax and discovered the neurobiological correlates of impossible languages, along with the electrophysiological signal of basic syntactic structures. He belongs to the Pontifical Academy of Arts and Letters (Rome) and the Academia Europæa (London). He published in Nature, PNAS and Linguistic Inquiry; his scientific essays include The Raising of Predicates (Cambridge University 1997) and Dynamic Antisymmetry (MIT 2000); among his trade books: The Boundaries of Babel (MIT 20152), A Brief History of the Verb to be (MIT 2017), Parlo dunque sono (Adelphi 20242), Impossible Languages (MIT, 2016); his first novel The Secret of Pietramala (La Nave di Teseo, 2018) won the Flaiano Prize for Literature, his second one is Cinquantun giorni (La Nave di Teseo, 2024).