An interview on language variation with... José-Luis Mendívil-Giró

José-Luis Mendívil-Giró is Professor at the Universidad de Zaragoza. His work has focused on the areas of lexical semantics and morphology, from both synchronic and diachronic points of views. He has made important contributions in the field of biolinguistics, where he has argued in favor of a biologically grounded nature of the faculty of language. Among his publications, the following ones merit special attention: Las palabras disgregadas (PUZ, Zaragoza, 1999), Gramática natural. La gramática generativa y la tercera cultura (A. Machado, Madrid, 2003), Origen, evolución y diversidad de las lenguas. Una aproximación biolingüística (Peter Lang, Frankfurt, 2009), On Biology, History and Culture in Human Language (Equinox, Sheffiled, 2014, with J.C. Moreno Cabrera) and El cambio lingüístico: sus causas, mecanismos y consecuencias (Síntesis, Madrid, 2015