Geert Booij's popular textbook on the structure of words has been revised and updated in a
third edition. The book covers every aspect of morphological theory and the analysis of …

A wide range of linguistic phenomena contribute to our understanding of the architecture of
the human linguistic system. In this paper we present a proposal dubbed Language …

In standard models of language production or comprehension, the elements which are
retrieved from memory and combined into a syntactic structure are “lemmas” or “lexical …

In some languages with DOM, the exponents of DOM and dative are homophonous, eg in
Spanish and Hindi. I argue that this pattern is not due to DOM objects and indirect objects …

This book provides both language-specific and cross-linguistic comparative analyses of
phenomena relating to person, case and case-marking, and agreement. It offers an explicit …

This paper provides support for a modified DM model which I call Optimality-Theoretic
Distributed Morphology (OT-DM). The strongest form of this model is that all morphological …

This dissertation discusses patterns of differential object (and subject) marking in a number
of different languages. In Part I (Chapters 2 to 4), I discuss differential object agreement in …

In this paper, I argue that declension classes are not primitives (see Aronoff; Alexiadou;
Kramer; ia), but are decomposed into simpler features, one of which is gender (Harris; …

The topic of this thesis is non-possessive person in the nominal domain, or nominal person.
By this, I mean the grammatical person of nominal phrases which anchors their denotation …

This dissertation explores the formal flexibility of syntactic categories. The main proposal is
that Universal Grammar (UG) only provides templatic guidance for syntactic category …