The functional neuroanatomy of inflectional morphology

Clahsen has presented an impressive range of psycholinguistic data from Ger man regular and irregular inflection to support the view that lexical memor y and the combinatorial operations of grammar are subserved by distinct men tal mechanisms. Most of the data are convincing and important. I particular ly applaud Clahsen's effort to extend this lexical/grammatical dichotomy fr om mind to brain. Here I discuss some problems with the evidence presented by Clahsen in support of a neural lexical/grammatical dichotomy, and offer some additional evidence to reinforce tills neural distinction.