Prof Ian Roberts

Career: asst de linguistique Anglaise Département de Langue et Littérature Anglaises Université de Genève 1985-86, maître-asst Département de Linguistique Générale Université de Genève 1986-91, prof and head of linguistics Univ of Wales Bangor 1991-96, prof and head of English linguistics Universität Stuttgart 1996-2000, prof of linguistics Univ of Cambridge 2000-, head of linguistics Univ of Cambridge 2000-05, professorial fell Downing Coll Cambridge 2000-; jt ed Jl of Linguistics 1994-2000 (asst ed 1996-2000); Prix Latsis de l'Université de Genève 1989; memb: Linguistic Soc of America 1982, Generative Linguistics in the Old World 1983, Linguistics Assoc of GB 1991, Fndn for Endangered Languages 1992, Philological Soc 2001, Academia Europaea 2008; FBA 2007

Books and Publications: The Representation of Implicit and Dethematized Subjects (1987), Viagem Diacrônica pelas Fases do Português Brasileiro: Homagem a Fernando Tarallo (jt ed, 1993), Verbs and Diachronic Syntax: A Comparative History of English and French (1993), Clause Structure and Language Change (jt ed, 1994), Comparative Syntax (1996), The Syntax of the Celtic Languages (jt ed, 1996), Beyond Principles and Parameters: Essays in Memory of Osvaldo Jaeggli (jt ed, 1999), Syntactic Change: A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalisation (jtly, 2003), Principles and Parameters in a VSO Language: A Case Study in Welsh (2005), Diachronic Syntax (2007), Comparative Grammar (ed, 6 vols, 2007), Agreement, Clitics and Defective Goals (2010), Parametric Variation: Null Subjects in Minimalist Theory (jtly, 2010), Syntactic Variation: The Dialects of Italy (jt ed, 2010)