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Andrea Moro
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Andrea Moro
Aliases:
Andrea Carlo Moro
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1962-07-24 （Pavia）
- Nationality
- Italian
- Languages
- Italian, English
- Residence History
- Pavia, Italy → Pisa, Italy → Bologna, Italy
Career
- Occupations
- linguist, neuroscientist, novelist
- Active Years
- 1990-2024
- Affiliations
- IUSS School for Advanced Studies Pavia, Scuola Normale Superiore, University of Bologna, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele
- Memberships
- Academia Europaea, Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon
- Influenced By
- Guglielmo Cinque, Noam Chomsky
- Influenced
- Noam Chomsky
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Pavia | — | Linguistics | Laurea | — | Italy |
| University of Padua | — | Linguistics | Ph.D. | — | Italy |
University of Pavia
Linguistics
Degree:
Laurea
Year of Graduation:
1986
Country:
Italy
University of Padua
Linguistics
Degree:
Ph.D.
Year of Graduation:
1991
Country:
Italy
Doctoral advisor: Guglielmo Cinque
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Flaiano Prizes | Il segreto di Pietramala | 文学 | Premio Flaiano | 受賞 |
| 2017 | PROSE Awards | Impossible Languages | — | Association of American Publishers | Honorable Mention |
Flaiano Prizes
2018
Work:
Il segreto di Pietramala
Category:
文学
Organization:
Premio Flaiano
Result:
受賞
PROSE Awards
2017
Work:
Impossible Languages
Organization:
Association of American Publishers
Result:
Honorable Mention
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Il segreto di Pietramala
2018 ThrillerA thriller concerning a lost language.
lost languagemysterylinguistics
Translations
- The Secret of Pietramala (2023)
Cinquantun giorni
2024 NovelA story of love, friendship, vendetta, and murder, starting from the struggle of two theater companies in Milan 1978 and ending in Geneva. A transcription of the Iliad.
lovefriendshipvendettaIliad
Dynamic Antisymmetry
2000 LinguisticsMonograph proposing dynamic antisymmetry, where movement results from symmetry-breaking in the syntactic computational system.
syntactic movementantisymmetry
Impossible Languages
2016 NeurolinguisticsDiscusses experiments showing that artificial languages violating Universal Grammar principles do not activate language networks in the brain.
Universal Grammarbrain and language
Bibliography
- Il segreto di Pietramala (2018)
- Cinquantun giorni (2024)
- The Secret of Pietramala (2023)
- Dynamic Antisymmetry (2000)
- The Raising of Predicates (1997)
- Impossible Languages (2016)
- The Equilibrium of Human Syntax (2013)
- A Brief History of the Verb To Be (2017)
- The Secrets of Words (2022)
- Lucretius and the Bat with Blue Eyes (2025)
Translations of Works
- The Secret of Pietramala
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Clear academic proseThrilling narrative style
- Recurring Motifs
- biological basis of languageimpossible languagesbrain language processing
Legacy
Pioneered theories of inverse copular sentences, dynamic antisymmetry, and expletives in syntax; demonstrated neural correlates of Universal Grammar in neurolinguistics. Awarded Flaiano Prize for debut novel on language themes.
Academic Societies
- Academia Europaea
- Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon
Trivia
- Visiting scientist at MIT and Harvard multiple times.
- Collaborated extensively with Noam Chomsky.