Andrea Calabrese

Andrea Calabrese was born in Campi Salentina in the southeastern tip of Italy. He studied at the University of Padova, at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he obtained his Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1988. From 1989 to 1997 he taught at Harvard University and since 1997 he has been teaching at the University of Connecticut. From 1997 to 2011 he also taught at the University of Siena, Italy, as a visiting professor. His main interests are phonology, morphology and historical linguistics. He published more than 80 articles in books and journals such as Linguistic Inquiry, Probus, Morphology, Isogloss, The Linguistic Review, Studies in Language, Brain and Language, Journal of Neuro-Linguistics, Rivista di Linguistica.