Juan Uriagereka is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. A close associate of Noam Chomsky, he has published articles in the most prestigious journals in the field and books with international publishers like MIT Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Blackwell and Routledge. Among his many awards are the Premio Nacional de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales of the Basque Government (2001) and the Premio de Novela Corta José María de Pereda (2001).