Interview with Hagit Borer for Revista Linguística

Abstract

In this volume of Revista Linguística, which has articles on the topic “Synchronic and Diachronic Grammatical Studies,” I had the honor of interviewing one of the most influential linguists of our time, Professor and researcher Hagit Borer.
Hagit Borer is a professor of linguistics at Queen Mary University of London. She develops research in Generative Grammar and has also developed her own Theoretical Model of Grammar - The Exo-Skeletal Model which shifts the computational load away from the lexical entry to the syntactic structure. She is the author of several books and articles in linguistics, including the trilogy – Structuring Sense – which details the Exo-Skeletal Model.
Borer got her PhD in linguistics in 1981 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she was a student of Noam Chomsky. She is a fellow of the British Academy and Linguistic Society of America. In her solid career, she has been developing studies mainly in three sub-areas of linguistics: comparative syntax, morphosyntax, and language acquisition.
Despite her extensive curriculum, she is an extremely attentive person. I also had the opportunity to get to know her welcoming side while I was in Queen Mary to develop part of my PhD under her supervision. This interview shares with all the readers of this volume her generosity in sharing her knowledge in view of her detailed and very enlightening answers.