Giuseppe Longobardi

Giuseppe Longobardi is a linguist and academic who serves as an Anniversary Professor at the University of York and is an elected Member of the Academia Europaea. He is most known for combining generative grammatical principles with problems of analytic philosophy, such as the expression of reference, and with historical-comparative explanations.

Longobardi initially focused on the study of syntactic long-distance dependencies, later expanding to the syntax-semantics mapping (reference in proper names and generics, negation, predication) and to the limits of grammatical variability. He then developed the Parametric Comparison Method to reconstruct language families and address paleo-anthropological questions by comparing linguistic and biological diversity.

Longobardi has contributed to syntactic theory and historical syntax through various journals, authored and edited volumes with Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press, and co-edited a special issue of the ''Journal of Historical Syntax''. Provided by Wikipedia