David Pesetsky

David Pesetsky is a professor of Linguistics at MIT, where he has worked since 1988. Though most of his research concerns how sentences are put together in the world's languages, he has also worked on the relation between language and music. He grew up in New York and currently lives in Lexington, MA. He has played in chamber groups and community orchestras his entire adult life, including the New Philharmonia Orchestra as well as the Brookline Symphony — and recently started taking violin lessons again after a mere 50-year gap. Though in his orchestras he is a violinist, his pandemic gift to himself was a viola.