Juan Uriagereka

Linguistics and School of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures

For what it's worth

In my view, broadly construed diversity is essential to the human condition, and very directly responsible for breakthroughs in the arts and sciences.

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A Royal Boar Hunt, Velázquez
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If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Noam Chomsky

Latest Publications

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The genomic landscape of mammal domestication might be orchestrated by selected transcription factors regulating brain and craniofacial development

Development Genes and Evolution 233 (2), 123-135 Domestication transforms once wild animals into tamed animals that can be then exploited by humans. The process entails modifications in the body, cognition, and behavior that are essentially driven by differences in gene expression patterns. Although genetic and epigenetic mechanisms were shown to underlie such differences, less is […]
By Juan Uriagereka
August 8, 2023
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Features, categories, and interactions within levels

Consonant and vowel categories, differing in distinctive features, interact into projected syllables. Noun and verb categories, also differing in distinctive (categorial) features, interact into projected phrases. Phrases to categorize (via featural distinctions of the A/A’, head/maxP sort) and interact into chains, thus regarded as super-projected structures. What is less obvious is whether these distinctions – […]
By Juan Uriagereka
May 10, 2023
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Correlated attributes: Toward a labeling algorithm of complementary categorial features

Frontiers in Language Sciences 2, 1107584 Classical syntactic features are revisited from an algebraic perspective, recalling a traditional argument that the ±N vs. ±V distinction involves correlated, conceptually orthogonal, features, which can be represented in the algebraic format of ±1 vs. ±i complementary elements in a vectorial space. Coupled with natural assumptions about shared information (semiotic) systems, such a space, […]
By Juan Uriagereka
February 20, 2023
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Categories with complements

Philosophies 7 (5), 102 Verbs and nouns gear θ-dependencies, Case, agreement, or construal relations. Building on Chomsky’s 1974 decomposition of such categories into ±N, ±V features, by translating said features into ±1, ±i scalars that allow for the construction of a vector space, this paper studies the possibility of organizing said features into 2 × 2 […]
By Juan Uriagereka
September 15, 2022
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La física del lenguaje

ReGrOC. Revista de Gramática Orientada a las Competencias 4 (1), 62-71 En este artículo resumimos brevemente y de manera no técnica varios avances recientes en el estudio del lenguaje desde la perspectiva de la física. En particular, comentamos resultados referentes a la equivalencia entre MERGE y renormalización, así como de la teoría de Matrix Syntax. […]
By Román Orús, Juan Uriagereka
May 28, 2022
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Latest Outreach

Most of my outreach activities concentrate on cultural politics and the defense of human diversity.

MILE

The Maryland Initiative for Literacy and Equity is working to ensure that every Maryland child has that opportunity, regardless of their race, ethnicity or first language
March 28, 2024

Screening of Arrival

Juan Uriagereka will be hosting a screening and discussion of Arrival as part of the course Science & Society Via Film.
February 15, 2023

Biophysics of Language

Prof. Juan Uriagereka shares information about the Language Carillon Community.
April 16, 2020

Matrix syntax (MS)

MS is a formal model of syntactic relations in language, the mathematical structure of which allows us to describe difficult to model long-range correlations in syntax.
June 21, 2019

Mystics

An original production of Musica Aperta Based on texts by Saint John of the Cross and Rosalia de Castro
October 1, 2018
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