Grant Goodall

Grant Goodall is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of California San Diego, where he also directs the Experimental Syntax Lab and the Linguistics Language Program. He is the author of many books and articles on syntax (the human ability to combine words into sentences) and on the development of syntax as children and adults acquire a new language. He conducts research on a variety of languages and has a longstanding special interest in second language learning and teaching. He was educated in both the U.S. and Mexico and has spent much of his life on the border between the two.