Andrea Moro#
| Membership Number: | 4702 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.nets.iusspavia.it/people/moro.php |
For an update curriculum please check my ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6602-5871
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - present Full Professor of General linguistics, University School for Advanced Studies IUSS - Pavia (Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS - Pavia)
- 2009, 03-2009, 05: Visiting Scientist at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 2008, 03 - 2008, 05 Visiting Scientist at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 2007, 03 - 2007, 05 Visiting Scientist at the Department of Linguistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 2006, 02 - 2006, 05 Visiting Scientist at the Department of Linguistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 2001 - 2010 Full Professor of General linguistics; Facoltà di Psicologia, Università “Vita-Salute” San Raffaele, Milano
- 1999 - 2001 Associate Professor of Linguistics; Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Bologna
- 1991 - 1992 Visiting Scientist at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 1988 - 1989 Visiting Scientist at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
- Cambridge, Massachusetts; Fulbright grant – Institute of International Education (IIE)
Fields of Scholarship
- Formal semantics
- Syntactic theory
- History of linguistics
- General linguistics
- Neurolinguistics
- Linguistic theory
Honours and Awards
- 2018b: "Flaiano" International Prize for Literature: "Il segreto di Pietramala" (La nave di Teseo)
- 2018a: Award of order of civic merit by the city of Pavia (Civica Benemerenza di San Siro)
- 2017: Honorable mention at "PROSE" Awards by the American Publishers Award (https://proseawards.com
) for "Impossible Languages" (MIT Press)
- 2016: "Merck" Literature Prize, honourable mention for “I confini di Babele. Il cervello e il mistero delle lingue impossibili” (second revised edition), Villa Miani, 15th June, Rome
- 2014: 7th winner of the international literary prize: "Le cattedrali letterarie europee", awarded by the Associazione Culturale “Eureka”, under the patronage of the President of Italy , Palazzo Corsini, Rome
- 2006: Festival Internazionale Editoria Scientifica (FEST), Trieste, for “I confini di Babele. Il cervello e il mistero delle lingue impossibili”
