The extent to which the linguistic system—its architecture, the representations it operates on,
the constraints it is subject to—is specific to language has broad implications for cognitive …

How recurrent typological patterns, or universals, emerge from the extensive diversity found
across the world's languages constitutes a central question for linguistics and cognitive …

Kayne (1994) was instrumental in putting linear asymmetries on the generative research
agenda. His Linear Correspondence Axiom is seen as a restrictive, conceptually attractive …

Abstract “Hybrid” nouns are known for being able to trigger either syntactic or semantic
agreement, the latter typically occurring outside the noun's projection. We document and …

The world's languages exhibit striking diversity. At the same time, recurring linguistic
patterns suggest the possibility that this diversity is shaped by features of human cognition …

Recent work has used artificial language experiments to argue that hierarchical
representations drive learners' expectations about word order in complex noun phrases like …

According to classical arguments, language learning is both facilitated and constrained by
cognitive biases. These biases are reflected in linguistic typology—the distribution of …

A central concern of generative grammar is the relationship between hierarchy and word
order, traditionally understood as two dimensions of a single syntactic representation. A …

Noun phrase word order varies cross-linguistically, however, two distributional asymmetries
have attracted substantial attention. First, the most common orders place adjectives closest …

This article proposes that the possible word orders for any natural language construction
composed of n elements, each of which selects for the category headed by the next, are …