In this major new book, John A. Hawkins presents a new theory of linear ordering in syntax.
He argues that processing can provide a simple, functional explanation for syntactic rules of …

The economic losses often associated with parasitism in cattle are universally accepted. The
degree of economic significance related to these losses, the burdens of parasites required to …

This book addresses a question fundamental to any discussion of grammatical theory and
grammatical variation: to what extent can principles of grammar be explained through …

Twenty years ago, in 1963, Joseph Greenberg's paper “Some Universals of Grammar with
Particular Reference to the Order of Meaningful Elements” was published in the first edition …

Since Paul Grice published 'Logic and conversation'in 1975, there have been a number of
attempts to develop his programmatic remarks on conversational and conventional …

The classification of the legume family proposed here addresses the long‐known non‐
monophyly of the traditionally recognised subfamily Caesalpinioideae, by recognising six …

To what extent does performance shape the competence grammar? There has been much
discussion of this issue following the early work of Noam Chomsky and George Miller (see …

To explore influences of friends and friendships on adjustment to junior high school, 101
students were interviewed about their friendships in the spring of sixth grade and again in …

This article examines crosslinguistic variation in FILLER-GAP DEPENDENCIES (WH-
questions and relative clauses) from a processing perspective, and integrates research …

Cross-linguistic studies of morphology have demonstrated that there is an asymmetry in the
type of affixation preferred: languages which would be predicted on independent structural …