James P. Blevins is Assistant Director of Research at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics in the University of Cambridge. He received his Ph.D in Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1990, and has taught at The University of Western Australia, The University of Texas, The University of Alberta, and The University of California, Berkeley. His research deals mainly with the description and analysis of morphological systems and syntactic constructions, with a particular emphasis on paradigm structure and discontinuous dependencies. Areal interests include Germanic, Balto-Finnic, Balto-Slavic and Kartvelian.Juliette Blevins is a Senior Scientist in the Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. She received her doctorate in Linguistics from MIT in 1985, and then joined the Department of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests range from historical, descriptive, and typological studies, to theoretical analysis with a synthesis in her recent book Evolutionary Phonology (Cambridge University Press). Other interests include Oceanic languages, Australian Aboriginal languages, and Native American languages.

a very enlightening and useful collection of pertinent linguistic work in the field, and the editors have done a wonderful job in bringing together many high-quality, insightful papers on the subject.

• PART I TYPOLOGY AND COMPLEXITY; PART II LEARNING; PART III MODELLING ANALOGY

James P. Blevins is Assistant Director of Research at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics in the University of Cambridge. He received his Ph.D in Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1990, and has taught at The University of Western Australia, The University of Texas, The University of Alberta, and The University of California, Berkeley. His research deals mainly with the description and analysis of morphological systems and syntactic constructions, with a particular emphasis on paradigm structure and discontinuous dependencies. Areal interests include Germanic, Balto-Finnic, Balto-Slavic and Kartvelian.Juliette Blevins is a Senior Scientist in the Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. She received her doctorate in Linguistics from MIT in 1985, and then joined the Department of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests range from historical, descriptive, and typological studies, to theoretical analysis with a synthesis in her recent book Evolutionary Phonology (Cambridge University Press). Other interests include Oceanic languages, Australian Aboriginal languages, and Native American languages.

a very enlightening and useful collection of pertinent linguistic work in the field, and the editors have done a wonderful job in bringing together many high-quality, insightful papers on the subject.

• PART I TYPOLOGY AND COMPLEXITY; PART II LEARNING; PART III MODELLING ANALOGY