Professor Iggy Roca

Biography

He holds undergraduate degrees in Law and Romance Philology, and postgraduate qualifications in Linguistics. His main research activity lies in the areas of phonology and morphology, and he has published a number of papers dealing with such matters as stress, syllables and grammatical gender. He is author of Generative Phonology (Routledge 1994), co-author of Foundations of General Linguistics (Unwin Hyman 1988), and editor of Logical Issues in Language Acquisition (Foris 1990), and Thematic Structure: Its role in Grammar (Foris 1992). He has spent several periods as a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is currently a member of an international team investigating the typology of European languages, sponsored by the European Science Foundation.

Qualifications

• Lic. en. Der. Santiago, Lic. en Fil. Rom. Barcelona,

• MA Essex,

• PhD Essex,