Cedric Boeckx

Cedric Boeckx is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University. He received his PhD from the University of Connecticut in 2001. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Illinois and Maryland. He is the author of Islands and Chains (Benjamins, 2003), Linguistic Minimalism (OUP 2006), and Understanding Minimalist Syntax: Lessons from Locality in Long-Distance Dependencies (Blackwell 2007). He is co-editor with Kleanthes K. Grohmann of Multiple Wh-fronting (Benjamins, 2003) and co-author with Howard Lasnik and Juan Uriagereka of A Course in Minimalist Syntax (Blackwell, 2005). He has published numerous articles in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry and Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.