Andrea Moro is Professor of General Linguistics at the Institute for Advanced Study (IUSS) in Pavia, Italy. He is the author of Dynamic Antisymmetry, Impossible Languages, and The Boundaries of Babel (all published by the MIT Press), and other books, including The Raising of Predicates and I Speak, Therefore I Am.
A Brief History of the Verb o Be is a must-read for anyone who is interested in the syntax of copular sentences. But Moro's book has merits that go beyond that....A particular merit of Moro's book, and possibly its greatest achievement, is that it encourages readers to ask their own questions at almost every turn of the argument. —Journal of Linguistics