Dr. Lior Laks is a linguist working on morphology and its interface with other components of the grammar: phonology, the lexicon and the syntax. He graduated from Tel-Aviv University, where he completed his doctoral dissertation entitled "Morpho-phonological and morpho-thematic relations in Hebrew and Arabic verb formation", under the supervision of Prof. Outi-Bat-El and Prof. Tal Siloni. He joined the Department of English Literature and Linguistics in Bar-Ilan University in 2011. Dr. Laks examines word formation processes while relating to different types of criteria that play a role is the selection of morphological forms, productivity of word formation and the absence of possible words that conceptually could be formed.