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Andrea Moro

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Andrea Moro, Professor of General Linguistics at the Scuola Univestitaria Superiore IUSS of Pavia, studies the link between human languages structure and the brain. He has been visiting scientist at the MIT and at Harvard University. He is member of the Accademia Pontificia di Arti e Lettere. Planning artificial grammars, he showed that language rules are not just arbitrary conventions but are restricted by the neurobiological architecture of the brain. He published essays in various languages, among them Breve storia del verbo essere (Adelphi, 2006) and Le lingue impossibili (Cortina, 2017). He also debut in fiction with the novel Il segreto di Pietramala (La nave di Teseo, 2018) with which he won the Flaiano Award. At the end of August he will publish the essay La razza e la lingua. Sei lezioni contro il razzismo (La nave di Teseo).

2019

The race and the language: the future that does (not) expect us


2015

Beyond the boundaries of Babel

2012

I speak, therefore I am Like the starry sky: visions of language across the centuries

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2012

I speak, therefore I am The hidden waft: the secrets of language

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2012

I speak, therefore I am The word and the flesh: the neurobiology of language

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