Géraldine Legendre

Géraldine Legendre is a Professor and Chair at the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Johns Hopkins University. Her research explores the architecture of language, with a focus on syntax, cross-linguistic variation, and the role of optimization in linguistic models.

Education:

• PhD in Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego

Her work spans syntactic theory, child language acquisition, and formal models of variation, particularly in French, Romance, and Balkan languages. She investigates mappings between lexical semantics, prosody, and information structure in syntactic frameworks.