Andrea Moro
Biographic Data
| ID | 515665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Moro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Moro |
| SIGNATURE | MORO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6602-5871 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
An investigation of nominal copular sentences in three reading paradigms
C-level managers and born-digitals' scaling
This research contributes to the Management of Technology (MOT) literature by scrutinizing the interrelation between education, experience, and the scaling aptitudes of high-tech companies. The study hinges on a comprehensive analysis of data collected from 1987 C-level executives and 3644 born-digital firms that pursued funding via blockchain-based Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). Employing structural equation modeling, we systematically tested ou…
The duality of syntax
Does religiosity affect financing activity? Evidence from Indonesia
We examine the role of religiosity on the financing activities in both Islamic and conventional banks in Indonesian provinces by using five different measures of religiosity: number of Islamic schools, hajj application, number of Islamic seminary schools, number of Mosques, and number of certified halal products. Based on regression analysis, the results show that both Islamic and conventional banks provide more financing in religious provinces. …
False perspectives on human language
A sharp tension exists about the nature of human language between two opposite parties: those who believe that statistical surface distributions, in particular using measures like surprisal, provide a better understanding of language processing, vs. those who believe that discrete hierarchical structures implementing linguistic information such as syntactic ones are a better tool. In this paper, we show that this dichotomy is a false one. Relying…
JUE insight
Modulating "Surprise" with Syntax
Asymmetries in nominal copular sentences
Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance
We investigate the effects of female executives on gender-specific wage distributions and firm performance. Female leadership has a positive impact at the top of the female wage distribution and a negative impact at the bottom. The impact of female leadership on firm performance increases with the share of female workers. We account for the endogeneity induced by non-random executives’ gender by including firm fixed-effects, by generating control…
Existential Sentences and Expletive There
One of the basic premises of the theory of syntax is that clause structures can be minimally identified as containing a verb phrase that plays the role of predicate and a noun phrase that plays the role of subject. Copular sentences – that is, sentences that contain the verb to be or its (verbal) equivalent across languages – depart from this pattern: they provide a special case study where the noun phrase that co‐occurs with the verb phrase play…
Copular Sentences
After a short theoretical and historical introduction to the notion of existential sentence, there ‐sentences are introduced and their peculiar syntactic properties are illustrated in detail. Two symmetrical accounts are presented as competing to explain these properties: the standard account; and an alternative one, which appears to capture the empirical data in a new, comprehensive fashion, by regarding there ‐sentences as inverse copular sente…
Language, mind and brain
When EU Leaders Speak, the Markets Listen
We use content analysis software to examine certain characteristics of communications arising from European Council meetings. These characteristics appear to explain a large proportion of variation in stock returns around the meeting dates. More specifically, stock market investors react favourably when the conclusions and declarations issued by heads of states convey a positive sentiment and demonstrate a stance of moral rectitude. On the other …
"Clause Structure Folding and the "Wh-in-Situ Effect
Why must a coordinative head show up before an adverbial wh-phrase in situ in Italian? In this article, I explore this rather neglected fact, showing that it reveals an otherwise hidden structure. More specifically, I propose that the coordinative head does not directly merge with the wh-phrase it precedes; rather, it takes a full clausal complement, inducing remnant movement and stranding of the highest wh-phrase. This configuration yields the o…
Discrimination in Latin America
This book presents a set of studies on contemporary discrimination in Latin America that takes advantage of these new tools by focusing on social interactions that range from cooperation, group formation, and the impact of migration in poor families to specific markets such as housing and labor. The techniques applied include traditional regression analysis, experimental approaches, and audit studies, as well as structural methods. This wide rang…
The Boundaries of Babel
In The Boundaries of Babel, Andrea Moro describes an encounter between two cultures: contemporary theoretical linguistics and cognitive neurosciences. As a leading theoretical linguist in generative tradition and also a neuroscientist, Moro is uniquely equipped to tell this story. Moro examines what he calls hidden revolution in contemporary science: discovery that number of possible grammars is not infinite and that their number is biologically …
The Raising of Predicates
One of the basic premises of the theory of syntax is that clause structures can be minimally identified as containing a verb phrase, playing the role of predicate, and a noun phrase, playing the role of subject. In this study Andrea Moro identifies a new category of copular sentences, namely inverse copular sentences, where the noun phrase which co-occurs with the verb phrase plays the role of predicate, occupying the position which is canonicall…
English focus constructions and the theory of grammar
Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance
We investigate the effects of female executives on gender-specific wage distributions and firm performance. Female leadership has a positive impact at the top of the female wage distribution and a negative impact at the bottom. The impact of female leadership on firm performance increases with the share of female workers. We account for the endogeneity induced by non-random executives’ gender by including firm fixed-effects, by generating control…
English focus constructions and the theory of grammar
Language, mind and brain
"Clause Structure Folding and the "Wh-in-Situ Effect
Why must a coordinative head show up before an adverbial wh-phrase in situ in Italian? In this article, I explore this rather neglected fact, showing that it reveals an otherwise hidden structure. More specifically, I propose that the coordinative head does not directly merge with the wh-phrase it precedes; rather, it takes a full clausal complement, inducing remnant movement and stranding of the highest wh-phrase. This configuration yields the o…
Asymmetries in nominal copular sentences
Modulating "Surprise" with Syntax
English focus constructions and the theory of grammar
The Raising of Predicates
One of the basic premises of the theory of syntax is that clause structures can be minimally identified as containing a verb phrase, playing the role of predicate, and a noun phrase, playing the role of subject. In this study Andrea Moro identifies a new category of copular sentences, namely inverse copular sentences, where the noun phrase which co-occurs with the verb phrase plays the role of predicate, occupying the position which is canonicall…
The Boundaries of Babel
In The Boundaries of Babel, Andrea Moro describes an encounter between two cultures: contemporary theoretical linguistics and cognitive neurosciences. As a leading theoretical linguist in generative tradition and also a neuroscientist, Moro is uniquely equipped to tell this story. Moro examines what he calls hidden revolution in contemporary science: discovery that number of possible grammars is not infinite and that their number is biologically …
Discrimination in Latin America
This book presents a set of studies on contemporary discrimination in Latin America that takes advantage of these new tools by focusing on social interactions that range from cooperation, group formation, and the impact of migration in poor families to specific markets such as housing and labor. The techniques applied include traditional regression analysis, experimental approaches, and audit studies, as well as structural methods. This wide rang…
"Clause Structure Folding and the "Wh-in-Situ Effect
Why must a coordinative head show up before an adverbial wh-phrase in situ in Italian? In this article, I explore this rather neglected fact, showing that it reveals an otherwise hidden structure. More specifically, I propose that the coordinative head does not directly merge with the wh-phrase it precedes; rather, it takes a full clausal complement, inducing remnant movement and stranding of the highest wh-phrase. This configuration yields the o…
When EU Leaders Speak, the Markets Listen
We use content analysis software to examine certain characteristics of communications arising from European Council meetings. These characteristics appear to explain a large proportion of variation in stock returns around the meeting dates. More specifically, stock market investors react favourably when the conclusions and declarations issued by heads of states convey a positive sentiment and demonstrate a stance of moral rectitude. On the other …
Existential Sentences and Expletive There
One of the basic premises of the theory of syntax is that clause structures can be minimally identified as containing a verb phrase that plays the role of predicate and a noun phrase that plays the role of subject. Copular sentences – that is, sentences that contain the verb to be or its (verbal) equivalent across languages – depart from this pattern: they provide a special case study where the noun phrase that co‐occurs with the verb phrase play…
Copular Sentences
After a short theoretical and historical introduction to the notion of existential sentence, there ‐sentences are introduced and their peculiar syntactic properties are illustrated in detail. Two symmetrical accounts are presented as competing to explain these properties: the standard account; and an alternative one, which appears to capture the empirical data in a new, comprehensive fashion, by regarding there ‐sentences as inverse copular sente…
Language, mind and brain
Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance
We investigate the effects of female executives on gender-specific wage distributions and firm performance. Female leadership has a positive impact at the top of the female wage distribution and a negative impact at the bottom. The impact of female leadership on firm performance increases with the share of female workers. We account for the endogeneity induced by non-random executives’ gender by including firm fixed-effects, by generating control…
Modulating "Surprise" with Syntax
Asymmetries in nominal copular sentences
JUE insight
Does religiosity affect financing activity? Evidence from Indonesia
We examine the role of religiosity on the financing activities in both Islamic and conventional banks in Indonesian provinces by using five different measures of religiosity: number of Islamic schools, hajj application, number of Islamic seminary schools, number of Mosques, and number of certified halal products. Based on regression analysis, the results show that both Islamic and conventional banks provide more financing in religious provinces. …
False perspectives on human language
A sharp tension exists about the nature of human language between two opposite parties: those who believe that statistical surface distributions, in particular using measures like surprisal, provide a better understanding of language processing, vs. those who believe that discrete hierarchical structures implementing linguistic information such as syntactic ones are a better tool. In this paper, we show that this dichotomy is a false one. Relying…
C-level managers and born-digitals' scaling
This research contributes to the Management of Technology (MOT) literature by scrutinizing the interrelation between education, experience, and the scaling aptitudes of high-tech companies. The study hinges on a comprehensive analysis of data collected from 1987 C-level executives and 3644 born-digital firms that pursued funding via blockchain-based Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). Employing structural equation modeling, we systematically tested ou…
The duality of syntax
An investigation of nominal copular sentences in three reading paradigms
Computer Science (11 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Natural language processing (8 works) · Mathematics (7 works) · Syntax (6 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)