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María Luisa Rivero is the foremost comparative linguist in Canada, in addition to being known worldwide as a specialist in Balkan, Romance and Slavic linguistics. She has made highly original contributions in theoretical and historical linguistics and has been a pioneer in bringing comparative research into the mainstream of formal linguistics. Rivero has demonstrated the power of comparative work to investigate the innate component in the mind that accounts for core properties in all languages, and her studies constitute an important testing ground for linguistic theory concerning language universals.

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María Luisa Rivero is known worldwide as a specialist in Balkan, Romance and Slavic linguistics. She has been a pioneer in bringing comparative research into the mainstream of formal linguistics and demonstrated the power of comparative work to investigate the innate component in the mind that accounts for core properties in all languages.