Are compounds words or phrases-or are they neither or both? How should we classify
compounds? How can we deal with the fact that the relationship between the elements of …

Recent progress in self-supervised or unsupervised machine learning has opened the
possibility of building a full speech processing system from raw audio without using any …

Some reference grammars and cross‐linguistic works describe all elements that are not
clear‐cut words as “clitics.” As a consequence of this practice, the class of suggested clitics …

Morphology, understood as internal structure of words, has always figured prominently in
linguistic typology, and it is with the morphological classification of languages into …

This paper offers and discusses a simple definition of the term clitic from a comparative
perspective: A clitic is a bound morph that is neither an affix nor a root. It gives examples of …

The outstanding property of human language is its diversity, and yet acquisition data is only
available for three percent of the world's 6000+ spoken languages. Due to the rapid pace of …

This volume explores the multiple aspects of morphological complexity, investigating
primarily whether certain aspects of morphology can be considered more complex than …

The identification of socioculturally important “keywords” remains a distinctive feature of
critical social theory. This article asks why this is so while offering a critique of “keyword …

A long-standing problem in linguistics is how to define word. Recent research has focused
on the incompatibility of diverse definitions, and the challenge of finding a definition that is …

Switch reference systems occur in a number of languages spoken in a contiguous area in
western South America, across language families, and even across macro culture areas …