Michael Brody

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Michael Brody (born 1954) is a Hungarian linguist, and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at University College London.

He was educated at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (1972-4), Université René Descartes (Sorbonne) (1974-5), University College London (1975-80) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1980-82). In addition to his position at UCL, he has also been a Senior Fellow at Collegium Budapest.

In his 1995 monograph, he proposed a purely representational theory of syntax. He argued that a theory with both derivations and representations involves redundancy, and therefore one of them should be abandoned. He has also argued that natural language syntax constitutes a perfect system, "reducible to a simple set of primitives and axioms."

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• Brody, Michael (1995). Lexico-logical Form: A Radically Minimalist Theory. MIT Press.