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This volume is a collection of studies in generative (morpho)syntax and phonology, which grew out of the 6th Generative Phonology in Poland (GLiP) meeting that took place at the University of Warsaw in the spring of 2008. The sixteen papers, written by the leading scholars in linguistics as well as young researchers, give a representative flavour of investigations across (morpho)syntax and phonology from the current generative perspective.Drawing on recent advances in formal linguistics, the majority of studies in this volume test the applicability of available theoretical frameworks to selected bodies of data. Some papers discuss the adequacy of competing theoretical solutions in the light of new experimental results. The empirical data is drawn from a variety of languages including standard and dialectal Polish, Russian, Croatian, Czech, English, Frisian and Swahili. The purpose is not only to illustrate long-standing problems but also to highlight less known facts. The collection will thus be relevant to those concerned with theoretical accounts, experimental findings, Slavic and general linguistics.

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I am pleased to recommend Generative Investigations: Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology, a collection of 16 studies in generative (morpho)syntax and phonology. The collection presents valuable up-to-date research in generative linguistics, covering a wide range of interesting topics and discussing a wealth of relevant data from various languages. It is worth mentioning that several authors address theoretical issues from the perspective of insightful experimental results. The book is an important contribution, relevant to anyone interested in recent developments in generative theory and its applicability to linguistic data. - Jerzy Rubach, Professor and Chair, Institute of English Studies, Department of Linguistics, University of Warsaw The Generative Linguistics in Poland conference series represents some of the finest linguistic scholarship being produced in Poland and about the Polish language over the past dozen years. This series strives both to highlight the work of young Polish scholars and to bring leading experts to Poland to present their latest research. The current volume - which brings together sixteen papers from the most recent GLiP - is no exception. The papers collected here, covering an impressive range of topics and insightfully written, offer fascinating data and sophisticated treatments of some of the most longstanding puzzles for linguistic analysis. Linguists of diverse stripe are sure to find something of interest in this compelling volume. - Prof. Steven Franks, Chair, Director of Graduate Studies (Linguistics), & Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures Professor, Linguistics Adjunct Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Slavic Linguistics

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Piotr Banski co-founded the GLiP conference series and has co-organised all the GLiP meetings to date. He graduated as a syntactician, then turned towards morphology and nowadays his interests lean towards lexicography and text encoding. He is currently an elected member of the Text Encoding Initiative Technical Council and an expert on the ISO TC 37 Subcommittee for Language Resource Management.Beata Lukaszewicz is Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests focus on formal and empirical issues in phonological acquisition as well as the phonetics-phonology interface. She has published in a number of journals including Lingua, Journal of Child Language and Journal of Slavic Linguistics.Monika Opalinska is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests include phonology and historical linguistics. She has recently published a critical translation of the Old English Dream of the Rood. She is currently working on the Exeter Codex elegies and on the metrical issues of Old English liturgical poetry.Joanna Zaleska graduated from University of Warsaw, Poland, with a thesis on approaches to phonological opacity in Optimality Theory. She is currently a PhD student at the same university, investigating the issue of redundant information in phonological representations.

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