"The term 'Maya' refers to our sensory perception of the world and to a superficial reality that we must look beyond to find the inner reality of things. Applied to the study of language, we perceive sounds, a superficial reality, and then we seek structures, the underlying reality in what we call phonology, morphology, and syntax. The papers collected in this volume reflect the research interests and influence of Andrea Calabrese"--.

• Preface
• Contents
• Part I: Issues in Phonology
• The status of Italian glides in the syllable
• The phonology and phonetics of laryngeal stop contrasts in Assamese
• The phonetics-phonology relationship in the neurobiology of language
• Metaphony with unary elements
• Many sons of Aodh: Tracing multiple outcomes of the Scottish and Irish clan name MacAoidh/Ó hAodha
• Part II: Issues in Morpho-Phonology
• Disharmony and decay: Itelmen vowel harmony in the 20th century
• Deriving morphophonological (mis)applications
• Distribution of falling tones in Mabaan
• Vedic Sanskrit accentuation and readjustment rules
• Allomorphy of Italian determiners at the morphology-phonology interface
• Part III: Issues in the Morpho-Syntax
• Diachronic and synchronic aspects in the expression of temporal distance in the past: A process of grammaticalization in Italian compared with other Romance languages and English
• N inflections and their interpretation: Neuter -o and plural -a in Italian varieties
• Copying and resolution in South Slavic and South Bantu Conjunct Agreement
• Subject and impersonal clitics in northern Italian dialects
• Markedness as a condition on feature sharing
• Part IV: Issues in Syntax
• On a-marking of object topics in the Italian left periphery
• Postverbal subjects and nuclear pitch accent in Italian wh-questions
• On the Merge position of additive and associative plurals
• Subjects, topics and the interpretation of pro
• Index