Juan Uriagereka

Juan Uriagereka is a linguist who joined the University in 1989. He has published a dozen books, including two textbooks on the Minimalist Program and its precursors, as well as many articles and chapters. Uriagereka was a founding member of the Linguistics Department. He has directed or co-directed 19 dissertations and participated on many others. In his capacity as Associate Provost for Faculty he led the approval and promotion of family-friendly policies, regularizing the status of professional-track faculty, organizing leadership forums, and updating promotion and tenure policies. 

His current book projects include the books Biolinguistic Investigations and the Formal Language Hierarchy (Routledge 2018), a monograph in progress on Structure, with Howard Lasnik (MIT Press, forthcoming), and a multidisciplinary project to formulate language structures as linear operators of the sort employed in machine learning.