The general distinction between morphology and syntax is widely taken for granted, but it
crucially depends on a cross-linguistically valid concept of '(morphosyntactic) word'. I show …

In most languages we find'little words' which resemble a full word, but which cannot stand on
their own. Instead they have to'lean on'a neighbouring word, like the'd,'ve and …

This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing
(Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized …

This book argues (a) that there is no principled way to distinguish inflection and derivation
and (b) that this fatally undermines conventional approaches to morphology. Conceptual …

This paper addresses some of the issues learned during the course of building a written
language resource, called 'Peykare', for the contemporary Persian. After defining five …

Seit 1994 unterrichte ich die Kopfgesteuerte Phrasenstrukturgrammatik (Head-Driven
Phrase Structure Grammar). In den ersten Jahren habe ich dazu ein Vorlesungsskript …

Just as words or morphological elements may be related to each other historically, so can
entire constructions. The various synchronic 'types' of a construction, too, can be imagined …

This paper compares the concept pair indexing/flagging with the well-known concept pair
head/dependent marking that is widely used in typology. It shows that a general concept of …

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 …

This paper explores the Persian Ezafe construction, a construction which has received
significant attention in the syntactic literature in the past few decades. Descriptively, Ezafe is …