Richard S. Kayne

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Richard Kayne
Born	1944 (age 79–80)
Education	Columbia University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Known for	Antisymmetry
Scientific career
Fields	Linguistics
Institutions	New York University City University of New York University of Paris VIII
Doctoral advisor	John R. Ross

Richard Stanley Kayne (born 1944) is an American linguist and professor at New York University.

Life and career

Kayne was born in 1944. After receiving a B.A. in mathematics from Columbia University in 1964, he studied linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving his Ph.D. in 1969. He then taught at the University of Paris VIII (1969–1986), MIT (1986–1988) and the City University of New York (1988–1997), becoming Professor at New York University in 1997.

He has made prominent contributions to the study of the syntax of English and the Romance languages, such as French or Italian, within the framework of transformational grammar. His theory of Antisymmetry has become part of the canon of the Minimalist syntax literature.

Publications

• Movement and Silence, Oxford University Press, New York, 2005
• (with Thomas Leu & Raffaella Zanuttini) Lasting Insights and Questions: An Annotated Syntax Reader, Wiley/Blackwell, Malde, Mass., 2014
• Kayne, Richard S. (1994). The Antisymmetry of Syntax (Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 25). MIT Press.

External links

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