Andrea Carlo Moro (Pavia, 1962) graduated in Pavia in classical literature and obtained a Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Padua and a “Diplôme d'études supérieures (DES) en théorie de la syntaxe et syntaxe comparative” at the Université de Genève in 1993. He has been visiting scientist at the “Department of Linguistics and Philosophy” at MIT in 88/89, within the Fulbright Program, and in 91/92 and at the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University in 05/06 and 06/07.

He has been Associate Professor of History of Linguistics at the University of Bologna and is presently Full Professor of General Linguistics at University San Raffaele in Milan and head of the interfaculty program in Cognitive Neurosciences. As the scientific coordinator of the Linguistic Unit, he contributed to the foundation of the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the Istituto Scientifico H “San Raffaele” in 1993 in Milan; he is presently the coordinator of the Theoretical linguistics Unit a the Center of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Univeristy “Vita-Salute” San Raffaele. He taught courses in advanced syntax at the “Netherland Graduate School of linguistics (LOT)” in Nijmegen in 1997, at the GLOW International Summer School in Linguistics in Thermi in 1999 and at the University of Barcelona and the University of Arizona in 2003 and at “Netherland Graduate School of linguistics (LOT)” in Leuven in 2007.

His main fields of research are theoretical syntax (clause structure, expletives, unaccusativity, locality and syntactic movement), the relation between syntax and semantics (copular sentences, predication, existential sentences, definiteness effect, quasi-copular sentences) and neurolinguistics (focussing on the relation between syntax and the brain).

Among his publications: The raising of predicates, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997; Dynamic Antisymmetry, The MIT press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000, I confini di Babele, Longanesi, Milano, 2006 (forthcoming by MIT press); “Syntax and the Brain: Disentangling Grammar by Selective Anomalies”, NeuroImage 13, pagg. 110 – 118, 2001, “Neural correlates for the acquisition of natural language syntax”, NeuroImage, 17, pp. 700-709, 2002 and “Broca’s area and the language instinct,” Nature neuroscience, vol.6, pagg. 774-781.