Richard Stanley Kayne (born 1944) is an American linguist and professor at New York University.

in mathematics from Columbia University in 1964, he studied linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving his Ph.D. in 1969.

[3] He has made prominent contributions to the study of the syntax of English and the Romance languages, such as French or Italian,[4] [5] [6] within the framework of transformational grammar.

[7] His theory of Antisymmetry[8] has become part of the canon of the Minimalist syntax literature.

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