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                                | gptkbp:almaMater | gptkb:Yale_University 
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                                | gptkbp:award | gptkb:Fellow_of_the_Linguistic_Society_of_America 
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                                | gptkbp:birthYear | 1957 
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                                | gptkbp:boardMemberOf | gptkb:syntax gptkb:Linguistic_Inquiry
 
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                                | gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor | gptkb:Noam_Chomsky 
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                                | gptkbp:field | gptkb:syntax linguistics
 language acquisition
 morphology
 Russian linguistics
 music and language
 
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                                | gptkbp:hasWebsite | http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/pesetsky/ 
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                                | gptkbp:memberOf | gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences 
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                                | gptkbp:nationality | gptkb:American 
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                                | gptkbp:notableStudent | gptkb:Jon_Nissenbaum gptkb:Norvin_Richards
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableWork | gptkb:Categorial_Case_and_the_Structure_of_DP gptkb:Phrasal_Movement_and_its_Kin
 gptkb:Russian_Case_Morphology_and_the_Syntactic_Categories
 gptkb:Zero_Syntax:_Experiencers_and_Cascades
 
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                                | gptkbp:position | gptkb:Ferrari_P._Ward_Professor_of_Modern_Languages_and_Linguistics 
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                                | gptkbp:researchInterest | music cognition language universals
 Russian syntax
 argument structure
 case theory
 syntax-morphology interface
 syntax-semantics interface
 wh-movement
 
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                                | gptkbp:workInstitution | gptkb:Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology gptkb:MIT_Department_of_Linguistics_and_Philosophy
 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:Avram_Noam_Chomsky 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 4 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | David Pesetsky 
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