Chierchia

Gennaro Chierchia is an Italian linguist and one of the world's leading formal semanticists, serving as Haas Foundations Professor of Linguistics and Interim Chair of the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University.[1][3] He earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy from the Università di Roma in 1977 and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Massachusetts in 1984, with his research focusing on semantics, syntax/semantics mapping, pragmatics, philosophy of language, and language acquisition.[3][1] After teaching at institutions like Brown and Cornell, he worked in Milan before returning to Harvard in 2005.[2]