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Syntax and Morphology

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Syntax is the study of sentence structure, its relationship to meaning, and theoretical models that account for the ability of speakers to generate an infinite number of novel utterances. Morphology is the study of word structure and its relationship both to sentence structure and to meaning.

 

 

 

Personnel

Predictive processing, syntactic processing, morphological processing, South Asian languages, case and agreement, filler-gap dependencies

Syntax, Second language acquisition, Romance languages

Slavic prosody and the phonology/morphology interface; historical Slavic linguistics and accentology; and sociolinguistics, with a focus on questions of language and identity and language contact in the former Yugoslavia.

Syntax, Language acquisition, Germanic languages

Historical Indo-European linguistics, Syntax

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