1 The data contained in this paper is based on eldwork conducted by Rachel Nordlinger. She would like to express her gratitude to the Wambaya community for teaching her their language, especially to Molly Grueman, Mavis Hogan and Minnie Nimara. We are also grateful to Mar ia-Eugenia Ni~ no, Peter Sells and Jane Simpson for valuable comments on earlier versions of this paper. Of course, none of ...

This article reports on a series of 5 analyses of spontaneous production of verbal inflection (tense and person-number agreement) by 2-year-olds acquiring French as a native language. A formal analysis of the qualitative and quantitative results is developed using the unique resources of Optimality Theory (OT; Prince & Smolensky, 2004). It is argued that acquisition of morphosyntax proceeds via...

Neuropsychological dissociations between regular and irregular past tense verb processing have been explained in two ways: (a) separate mechanisms comprising a rule-governed process for regular and a lexical-associative process for irregular verbs; (b) a single system drawing on phonological and semantic knowledge. The latter account invokes phonological impairment as the basis of poorer perfor...

Several representations of the symmetric group, arising from different combinatorial, algebraic and geometric constructions, have lead to the same character, up to multiplication by the sign character: the homology of partition lattice (cf. [5, 7, 13]), the top component of a special quotient of the Stanley-Reisner ring of this same lattice [4], the top component of the cohomology algebra of th...

Nominal algebra is a logic of equality developed to reason algebraically in the presence of binding. In previous work it has been shown how nominal algebra can be used to specify and reason algebraically about systems with binding, such as first-order logic, the lambda-calculus, or process calculi. Nominal algebra has a semantics in nominal sets (sets with a finitely-supported permutation actio...

indq 6 indqξ for any ξ ∈ q . It is not always true that indq = indqξ, see Example 1.1 below. However, it was conjectured by ELASHVILI that if q = g is semisimple, then this equality always holds. It easily seen that it suffices to prove the equality indg = indgξ only for the nilpotent elements ξ ∈ g≃ g∗. The conjecture was recently proved by CHARBONNEL [3]. A proof for the classical Lie algebra...

1. RECAPITULATION Part I of this article treats tense in relative clauses (RCs) in English, Russian and Japanese. The temporal centre in RCs can always be Tproi, and sometimes it has to be Tproi. 1. In SOT languages such as English, the Tense in the RC is bound in RC\wollconfigurations, i.e., we find a Tproi bound by woll. The licensing of the morphological tense in the RC is non-local in these...