Mark Hale is Professor and Charles Reiss is Associate Professors of Linguistics at Concordia University, Montreal. Mark Hale is the author of Historical Linguistics: Theory and Method (Blackwell, 2007). His research interests include historical linguistics, especially the Oceanic and Indo-European families, phonological and syntactic theory and language acquisition. Charles Reiss is interested in phonology and general linguistics, and the place of linguistics in cognitive science. He is the co-editor with Gillian Ramchand of The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces (OUP, 2007) and autho...