▪ Abstract The New Guinea region is the most linguistically diverse region in the world, with
some 1000 languages in an area smaller than 900,000 km2. There are about three dozen …

This article surveys work on Unsupervised Learning of Morphology. We define
Unsupervised Learning of Morphology as the problem of inducing a description (of some …

" Morphology is the study of how words are put together. A lively introduction to the subject,
this textbook is intended for undergraduates with relatively little background in linguistics …

Assuming no prior grammatical knowledge, Understanding Syntax explains and illustrates
the major concepts, categories and terminology involved in the study of cross-linguistic …

This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the
need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and …

Most recent research in generative morphology has avoided the treatment of purely
morphological phenomena and has focused instead on interface questions, such as the …

This new edition of Understanding Morphology has been fully revised in line with the latest
research. It now includes' big picture'questions to highlight central themes in morphology, as …

The main function of language is to convey meaning. Therefore, argues Bernd Heine in
these pages, the question of why language is structured the way it is must first of all be …

Relative clauses play a hugely important role in analysing the structure of sentences. This
book provides the first evidence that a unified analysis of the different types of relative …

The set of person and number features necessary to characterize the pronominal paradigms
of the world's languages is highly constrained, and their interaction is demonstrably …