On Phonically Based Analogy

In this paper I examine the role sound alone can play as the basis for analogical connections among forms, as opposed to more conventionally discussed factors such as paradigmatic structure, grammatical category, or meaning. Examples are presented here, mainly from English, that show sound effects in analogy at various levels of linguistic analysis, including phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, and the lexicon

On Questions: Asking Them, Answering Them, and Learning From Them

As teachers we are generally in the business of giving information, an act that typically takes the form of statements or assertions or demonstrations. At the same time, too, we also ask questions, in large part to stimulate students or to test their knowledge in some way. Finally, we receive questions, in particular ones the students throw our way in the hopes of gaining both clarification and knowledge. These two aspects of questioning both have considerable value in fostering learning, and thus there is another facet to consider with regard to questions, namely learning from them

The Benefits of Morphological Classification: On Some Apparently Problematic Clitics in Modern Greek

This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid from the College of Humanities of the Ohio State University, and by a Fulbright Research award

Diachronic Morphology: an Overview

A fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies Joint Committee on Eastern Europe