Ha! Linguistic Studies in Honor of Mark R. Hale

This volume is dedicated to Mark R. Hale, Professor of Linguistics at Concordia University, Montreal, in celebration of his achievements and his impact on the field of linguistics. Mark Hale’s scholarship is among the most original, thought-provoking and provocative in the field—or fields, rather, since his interests range from comparative Indo-European linguistics and reconstruction to phonological theory, syntactic change, Polynesian comparative reconstruction, Middle Iranian philology, and subgrouping methodology all the way to sociolinguistics. The contributions collected in this volume pay homage to Mark’s work as a scholar and a teacher and represent a considerable subset of his research interests, including comparative reconstruction, phonological and syntactic theory, theoretical approaches to sound change, historical morphology and morphosyntax, the syntax and semantics of clitics across different languages families, and the study of the synchronic grammar of ancient languages.