Morphological Complexity
(Via Alex)
I recently ran across a proceedings paper by Max Bane that I found pretty interesting. It represents an attempt to quantify morphological complexity, which is a notion that gets thrown around loosely in linguistics. Having a precise definition for what that means could turn a lot of interesting, fuzzy claims into interesting, falsifiable claims.
Also, this person's name is *Max Bane* (at Chicago, in fact, with Floseph), which is reason enough for me to read anything he writes that isn't unreasonably long (this paper is short).