ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses a number of issues related to the processes involved in the formulation of linguistic utterances, with particular emphasis on the constraints set on these processes by various information sources. Specifically, my focus is on seeing how conceptual, lexical, and phonological representations guide and constrain the syntactic properties of linguistic messages during sentence formulation, and determining to what extent the processes of building the forms of utterances are insulated from their conceptual content and dependent on the structural properties of the language. This problem has been thoroughly investigated in the recent literature on sentence production carried out in English, but is still in need of crosslinguistic evidence.
