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After receiving an Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from Columbia College, New York in 1964, he studied linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving his Doctor of Philosophy in 1969.
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He then taught at the University of Paris VIII (1969–1986), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (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 within the framework of transformational grammar. His theory of Antisymmetry has become part of the canon of the Minimalist syntax literature.
