Academic Background: PhD, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, 1955.
Research Interests: Syntax, transformational-generative grammar, philosophy of language, and cognitive science.
Appointments: UA Laureate Professor of Linguistics, Agnese Nelms Haury Chair, University of Arizona; Professor Emeritus, MIT.
Awards: Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences; Helmholtz Medal; Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science.
Publications: 'Syntactic Structures' (Mouton, 1957); 'The Minimalist Program' (MIT Press, 1995).
Editorial Contributions: Editorial board member, Journal of Linguistics.
Additional Contributions: Influential public intellectual; numerous lectures on language and politics.