Associate Professor of Linguistics

Research Interests

Linguistics theory and the architecture of grammar; biolinguistics; theoretical and comparative syntax; Romance and Germanic syntax.

Representative Publications:

Multiple Wh-fronting (ed. with K. K. Grohmann), 2003. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Islands and Chains, 2003. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 

A course in minimalist syntax (with H. Lasnik and J. Uriagereka), 2005. Oxford: Blackwell.

Minimalist Essays (editor). 2006. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Agreement Systems (editor). 2006, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Linguistic Minimalism: Origins, Concepts, Methods, and Aims, 2006. New York: Oxford University Press.

Understanding Minimalist Syntax: Lessons from locality in long-distance dependencies. 2008. Oxford: Blackwell.

Bare Syntax.  2008. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Aspects of the Syntax of Agreement. 2008. London: Routledge.

Mailing Address
Department of Linguistics
313 Boylston Hall
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138

Office Telephone: (617) 496-4516
E-mail: cboeckx@fas.harvard.edu