Roberts, Ian G.

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Name (Latin)
Roberts, Ian G.
Other forms of name
Roberts, Ian, 1957 October 23-
Date of birth
1957-10-23
Field of activity
Linguistics
Associate group
University of Southern California
University of Cambridge
Occupation
College teachers
Linguists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 46842677
Wikidata: Q5982745
Library of congress: n 87842433
HAI10: 000237940
Sources of Information

Wikipedia description:

Ian G. Roberts is British linguist serving as Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. He also serves on the Advisory Council of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence). He received his PhD from the University of Southern California in 1985 and taught at the Universities of Geneva (1985–1993), Bangor (1991–1996) and Stuttgart (1996–2000) before taking up his present position at Cambridge in 2000. He is a fellow of Downing College. Professor Roberts is a generative linguist and enthusiastic adopter of Chomsky's minimalist program. He has published widely in the synchronic and diachronic syntax of Romance and Germanic languages and Welsh.

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