Borer, Hagit

HAGIT BORER is a professor of linguistics at Queen Mary University, London, and also at the University of Southern California. She studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was a student of Noam Chomsky. She is now a world expert in the study of syntax, and her three-volume "Structuring Sense" is a standard work in the field. Originally from Israel, Hagit left to study in the USA in 1977 and became a US citizen in 1992; having become entirely disillusioned with Israeli politics as a student, she is now an activist for the rights of Arabs in the Israeli-Palestinian conflic...