Gennaro Chierchia
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Gennaro Chierchia is Haas Foundation's professor of linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....

 at Harvard University
Harvard University
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, and "one of the world's leading formal semanticists" according to the Harvard Gazette
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. Prior to appointment to Harvard's faculty, Chierchia was linguistics professor in the psychology
Psychology
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 department of the University of Milan-Bicocca
University of Milan Bicocca
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