Farrell Ackerman

I work on a broad range of issues relating to Lexicalism construed generously: lexical semantics, morphology, and syntax. I'm concerned with cross-linguistic and typological matters in these domains, especially within the Uralic family. Following up on research from my book with Webelhuth (see below) I am exploring ways of applying Word & Paradigm (alternatively, inferential-realizational ) models of morphology to constraint based lexicalist theories. This work focuses on the relevance of paradigms and periphrasis for theory construction within a view of grammar referred to as Realization-based Lexicalism (Blevins 2001).