An investigation of how children balance rules and exceptions when they learn languages.
All languages have exceptions alongside overarching rules and regularities. How does a …

1Above all, I'd like to thank Paul Kay for hours of discussion and useful feedback at every
stage in the seemingly endless process of writing this chapter. I'm also grateful to Chuck …

We argue that subject-like obliques of the impersonal construction show behavioral
properties of syntactic subjects in Old Germanic, contrary to standard assumptions (Cole et …

This article discusses A-licensing and case from a minimalist perspective, pursuing the idea
that argument NPs cyclically enter a number of A-relations, rather than just a single one …

Dative Substitution, ie the change from accusative to dative subjects, has been explained in
the generative literature as thematic case marking ousting idiosyncratic case marking (cf …

This dissertation is about the elements that build verbs, the elements that introduce
arguments, and how these elements interact to determine the interpretation of arguments …

Grammaticalisation is generally seen as the change whereby lexical elements become
grammatical elements and/or whereby grammatical elements become even more …

The-st morpheme in Icelandic resembles Romance and Slavic reflexive clitics and some
Germanic simplex reflexives in that it is associated with a number of different uses on …

In historical-comparative research of today, syntactic reconstruction is, at best, a highly
controversial enterprise and, at worst, a stranded endeavor (see references in Section 2 …

In this article five existing explanations for the loss of case morphology in the Germanic
languages are examined. These are (1) phonological erosion,(2) a change from synthetic to …