Luigi Rizzi

Luigi Rizzi is a Professor of General Linguistics at the Collège de France, focusing on theoretical syntax, syntactic cartography, and language acquisition. He has held academic positions at the University of Siena, the University of Geneva, MIT, UCLA, and ENS Paris.

• Research Areas: Universal principles in syntax, parametric models of linguistic variation, mapping of syntactic structures, and the interplay between adult grammar and language acquisition.
• Awards: Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America, Member of Academia Europaea, and International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Publications span syntactic theory, minimalist program, and acquisition studies, including works on intervention effects, left periphery cartography, and the role of Merge in syntactic combinatorics. His teaching integrates adult grammar with developmental perspectives, emphasizing hierarchical representations and functional sequences.