Nanosyntax and the Lexicalization Algorithm

Pavel Caha, Associate Professor, Masaryk University,Karen De Clercq, Chargée de Recherche, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, CNRS / Université Paris Cité,Guido Vanden Wyngaerd, Professor, KU Leuven

Pavel Caha is an associate professor at Masaryk University. His research focuses on the theoretical implications of case marking, declensions, and degree morphology. His work has been published in journals such as Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, Morphology, Journal of Linguistics, and Glossa, and in reference works including The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Morphology, and The Cambridge Handbook of Distributed Morphology.


Karen De Clercq is a CNRS researcher affiliated with the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle at Université Paris Cité. Her main research interest is the morphosyntax of negation, which she approaches from a typological and nanosyntactic perspective. She is the author of The Morphosyntax of Negative Markers (Mouton de Gruyter, 2020), and co-editor of Exploring Nanosyntax (OUP, 2018) and Adverbial Resumption in Verb Second Languages (OUP, 2023).


Guido Vanden Wyngaerd is a full-time professor at KU Leuven for the fields of Dutch and General Linguistics. His current research focuses on negation and adjectival degrees from a nanosyntactic perspective. His publications include Dissolving Binding Theory (with Johan Rooryck; OUP, 2011), as well as a number of articles in leading international journals and reference works. He is an Associate Editor of Glossa.

1. Nanosyntax: State of the art and recent developments, Karen De Clercq;Pavel Caha;Michal Starke;Guido Vanden WyngaerdPart I the functional sequence2. Comparing Slavic comparatives, Anastasiia Vyshnevska3. Complex Left Branches in Frisian verbs, Fenna Bergsma;Jan Don;Anne Merkuur;Meg Smith4. Decomposing habituals, Furkan Dikmen; Ömer Demirok5. Suppletion and affix selection in Nanosyntax: The case of Spanish numerals, Antonio FábregasPart II Prefixes6. Polish prefix stacking redux, Bartosz Wiland7. Complications of Complex Left Branches: The case of Dutch verbal prefixes, Anne-Li Demonie8. The non-uniform nature of auxiliaries: A case study on Turkish, Serra Gök;Ömer DemirokPART III THE ALGORITHM AND SUBEXTRACTION9. A local analysis of an apparent nonlocal allomorphy in Tamil: A perspective from Rutul, Pavel Caha10. ABA patterns and the generative power of Nanosyntax, Daniar Kasenov11. Syncretism and markedness paradoxes in the Russian demonstrative declension, Pavel Caha;Lucie Taraldsen Medová12. The relation between theme vowels and root suppletion, Tarald TaraldsenPart IV New Explorations13. A modular approach to Phonologically Conditioned Allomorphy: The case of the Ligurian article system, Tommaso Balsemin;Francesco Pinzin14. Controlling morphosyntactic competition through phonology, Utku Türk15. Lexical structure and subjunctive selection, Lena Baunaz;Eric Lander16. Exponency in bilingual grammars: Conflict and compromise, David Natvig;Michael T. Putnam;Emmeline Wilson