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| Born | 1957 (age 68–69) |
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| Awards | Fellow of the AAAS, Fellow of theLinguistic Society of America |
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| Thesis | Paths and Categories |
| Doctoral advisor | Noam Chomsky |
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David Michael Pesetsky (born 1957) is an Americanlinguist. He is the Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics and former Head of theDepartment of Linguistics and Philosophy at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology.
He received a B.A. in linguistics fromYale in 1977 and a Ph.D. in linguistics from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982.[citation needed]
Pesetsky taught at theUniversity of Southern California and theUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst before joining the faculty of MIT in 1988. Pesetsky was elected aFellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011,[1] and a Fellow of theLinguistic Society of America in 2013.[2]
He has published articles and books within the framework ofgenerative grammar. A specialist insyntax, he has published on the cross-linguistic properties ofwh-movement as well as the theory ofargument structure. In a collaboration withEsther Torrego, he developed a theory ofgrammatical case innoun phrases, arguing thatnominative andaccusative cases are the mirror image for the nominal system ofphi feature agreement in the verbal system.[3] He has worked extensively on the structure of Russian, and recently has argued (in collaboration withJonah Katz) that the syntax of tonal music is identical to the structure of language.[4]
In an article coauthored withAndrew Nevins andCilene Rodrigues, Pesetsky criticized claims byDaniel Everett concerning thePirahã language, touching off a protracted debate in the pages of the journalLanguage.[5][6][7]
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