Peter W. Culicover is Professor of

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. He works in the areas of syntactic theory (particularly on the syntax of English), language learnability and computational modelling of language acquisition and language change.

Education

Culicover attended the City College of New York and graduated with a BA in mathematics in 1966. He earned his PhD from

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

in 1971 under

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with a thesis titled ''Syntactic and semantic investigations''.

Career

He worked at Ohio State for the duration of his career, serving as the Chair of the Department of Linguistics, Director of the Center for Cognitive Science, and Associate Provost. He is now the Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Linguistics.

Awards

Culicover is a winner of

Humboldt Prize The Humboldt Research Award (), also known informally as the Humboldt Prize, is an award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany to internationally renowned scientists and scholars who work outside of Germany in recognition of ...

and the Distinguished Scholar Award of Ohio State University.

Selected works

*''English Focus Constructions and the Theory of Grammar'' (with Michael S. Rochemont; Cambridge University Press, 1990) *''Principles and Parameters: An Introduction to Syntactic Theory'' (Oxford University Press, 1997) *''Syntactic Nuts: Hard Cases in Syntax'' (Oxford University Press, 1999) *''Dynamical Grammar'' (Oxford University Press, 2003) *(with

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) ''Simpler Syntax'' (Oxford University Press, 2005)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Culicover, Peter Linguists from the United States Living people Ohio State University faculty Syntacticians Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America