Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

This comprehensive treatment of several phenomena in Distributed Morphology explores a
number of topics of high relevance to current linguistic theory. It examines the structure of the …

Phenomena traditionally thought of as morphological can be accounted for in terms of
syntactic operations and principles, hence bringing forth questions that traditional …

This dissertation identifies a strong computational property of phonological and
morphological processes with local triggers. It is shown that the input-output map** that …

This chapter studies the nature of the typology of phonological markedness constraints and
the nature of the typology of the transformation from underlying to surface forms from a …

Abstract Beginning with Goldsmith (1976), the phonological tier has a long history in
phonological theory to describe non-local phenomena. This paper defines a class of formal …

Suppletion for case and number in pronominal paradigms shows robust patterns across a
large, cross-linguistic survey. These patterns are largely, but not entirely, parallel to patterns …

This extensive survey of consonant harmony in the world's languages reveals surprising
diversity in the featural dimensions involved, and uncovers new empirical generalizations …

In this article, I discuss the interaction of locality phenomena with the left periphery in Italian
as elaborated in,,. It turns out that long-distance crossing possibilities fully predict the local …