"This book attempts to provide a view of where the field of morphology has been and where it is today within a particular theoretical framework, gathering up new and representative work in morphology by both eminent and emerging scholars, and touching on a very wide range of topics, approaches, and theoretical points of view. These seemingly disparate articles have a common touchstone in their focus on a word-based, paradigmatic approach to morphology. The chapters in this book elaborate on these basic themes, from the further exploration of paradigms, to studies involving words, stems, and affixes, to examinations of competition, inheritance, and defaults, to investigations of morphomes, to ways that morphology interacts with other parts of the language from phonology to sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. The editors and contributors dedicate this volume to Prof. Mark Aronoff for his profound influence on the field"--.

• ALL THINGS MORPHOLOGY
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Chapter 1. All things morphology: An introduction
  • 1. Reaching back: Reinterpreting traditional views
  • 2. Morphemes and the autonomy of morphology
  • 3. Autonomous and word-based morphology: Aronovian perspective
  • 4. Outline of the book
    • 4.1 Paradigms
    • 4.2 Words, stems, and affixes
    • 4.3 Competition, inheritance, and defaults
    • 4.4 Morphomes
    • 4.5 Interfaces
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
• Part I. Paradigms
  • Chapter 2. Making sense of morphology: Foxes, hedgehogs and a calculus of infinitesimals
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Early systemic intuitions concerning Item and Pattern models
    • 3. The mirage of space between diachrony and synchrony: Systemic morphological organization in Māori and Baale
    • 4. The mirage of space between diachrony and synchrony
    • 5. Concluding observations
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
  • Chapter 3. A formal restriction on gender resolution
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Monotonicity
    • 3. Gender resolution rules
      • 3.1 Patterns of resolution
      • 3.2 Typologically attested patterns of resolution
    • 4. Conclusion
    • References
• Part II. Words, stems, and affixes
  • Chapter 4. Signs and words
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Sign words are similar to spoken words
      • 2.1 Constraints
      • 2.2 Linear morphological processes
    • 3. Sign words are different from spoken words
      • 3.1 Meaningful meaningless parts
      • 3.2 Iconically motivated, simultaneous morphology
      • 3.3 Classifier constructions: Hybrids of lexical and gestural elements
      • 3.4 Hybrid forms in creative performance: The Ebisu Sign Language Theatre Laboratory
    • 4. Language begins with the word
      • 4.1 Words at the outset
      • 4.2 Lexical variation in the community
    • 5. The birth of abstract productive morphology
    • 6. Summary and conclusion: What’s in a word?
    • References
  • Chapter 5. Leaving the stem by itself
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The quest for stem allomorphy
    • 3. Automatic inference of stems
      • 3.1 Alignment
      • 3.2 Unique discontinuous stems
      • 3.3 Sets of continuous stems
    • 4. How useful are continuous stem allomorphs?
    • 5. Conclusion
    • Acknowledgements
    • Funding
    • References
  • Chapter 6. Stem constancy under the microscope: A systematic language comparison of types and limitations of stem spelling
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Stem constancy
      • 2.1 Means of stem constancy
      • 2.2 Domain-dependent limitations of stem constancy
      • 2.3 Positional localization of deviations
      • 2.4 Systematicity of deviations
    • 3. Summary and preview of future research
    • References
  • Chapter 7. Major lexical categories and graphemic weight
    • 1. How did we get here?
    • 2. The three letter rule
    • 3. Why this regularity?
    • 4. Methodology
    • 5. Results
    • 6. Discussion
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
  • Chapter 8. Word formation in the brain: Data from aphasia and related disorders
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Neuropsychological syndromes
    • 3. Morphological errors
    • 4. Decomposition and levels in lexical processing
    • 5. Regular and irregular inflection
    • 6. Gender inflection
    • 7. Derivation
    • 8. The independence of inflection and derivation
    • 9. Morphology without phonology
    • 10. Compounding
    • 11. Conclusion
    • References
  • Chapter 9. The suffixing preference: A preliminary report on processing affixes in Georgian
    • 1. The Hawkins-Cutler hypothesis and subsequent work
    • 2. Overview of the morphology studied
    • 3. Experiment 1
      • 3.1 Materials
      • 3.2 Subjects and methods
      • 3.3 Results and discussion
    • 4. Experiment 2
      • 4.1 Materials
      • 4.2 Subjects and methods
      • 4.3 Results and discussion
    • 5. Concluding discussion
    • Funding
    • References
    • Appendix A. Real verbs with prefix v- or suffix -s
    • Appendix B. Nonce verbs with prefix v- or suffix -s
    • Appendix C. Real complex verbs with prefix v- and suffix -s
    • Appendix D. Complex nonce words with v- and -s
    • Appendix E. Real words with prefix i- or suffix -d
    • Appendix F. Nonce words with i- and -d
• Part III. Competition, inheritance, and defaults
  • Chapter 10. Feature-based competition: A thousand years of Slavonic possessives
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Feature-based competition
    • 3. Motivated feature-based competition
    • 4. Unmotivated feature-based competition
    • 5. The nature of the competition
    • 6. The competition in diachrony
      • 6.1 A cautionary note
      • 6.2 The key developments
      • 6.3 Outcomes in languages where the dual has been lost
      • 6.4 Dual preserved: First outcome: Upper and Lower Sorbian
      • 6.5 Dual preserved: Second outcome: Slovenian
    • 7. Conclusion
    • Acknowledgements
    • Funding
    • References
  • Chapter 11. Competition in comparatives: A look at Romance scenarios
    • 1. Comparatives from Latin to Romance
    • 2. Synthetic and analytic expression of ‘better’, ‘worse’, ‘bigger’ and ‘smaller’ in Romance: Theoretical possibilities and descriptions in grammars
      • 2.1 Scenario 1: The analytic construction blocks the synthetic construction
      • 2.2 Scenario 2: The synthetic construction blocks the analytic construction
      • 2.3 Scenario 3: Both constructions exist, and are used interchangeably
      • 2.4 Scenario 4: Both constructions exist, and are used in different contexts
      • 2.5 Interim conclusions
    • 3. Più buono vs. migliore in Italian: Niches
    • 4. Concluding remarks
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
  • Chapter 12. Multi-layered default in Ripano
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Inheritance and default in nominal morphology
      • 2.1 Noun inflectional classes
      • 2.2 The rise of overt gender in Ripano
      • 2.3 Adjective inflectional classes
    • 3. Two syntactic defaults in Ripano: Preliminaries on Ripano syntax
      • 3.1 Normal-case default
      • 3.2 Exceptional-case default
    • 4. Conclusion
    • Acknowledgements
    • Funding
    • References
• Part IV. Morphomes
  • Chapter 13. Morphomes all the way down!
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Two types of paradigm
    • 3. Morphomic features in form paradigms
    • 4. All form paradigm features are morphomic
    • 5. Two types of feature
    • 6. Conclusions
    • Acknowledgements
    • Abbreviations
    • References
  • Chapter 14. Conditional exponence
    • 1. Introduction: Exponence can be conditional
    • 2. Conditional exponence in Breton verb inflection
    • 3. What is rule combination?
      • Asymmetrical rule oppositions
      • Dependent rules
      • Processing frequent affix sequences
    • 4. Conditional exponence as a kind of rule combination
    • 5. A formal analysis of conditional exponence Breton verb inflection
    • 6. Conclusions
    • 7. Appendix: Further implications of rule combination in Breton
      • Irregular verbs
      • Conjugating prepositions
      • Dialectal variation
    • Abbreviations
    • References
  • Chapter 15. My favorite morphome: The Arabic suffix AT
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The phonological level
    • 3. The morphological level
      • 3.1 Morphological functions: Feminine forms
      • 3.2 Morphological functions: Singulative for mass nouns
      • 3.3 Morphological functions: Gerund for action
      • 3.4 Morphological functions: Plural for human nouns
      • 3.5 Morphological functions: Component of broken plural
      • 3.6 Morphological functions: Gerunds of certain verb classes
      • 3.7 Morphological functions (unproductive): In numerals
      • 3.8 Morphological functions (unproductive): Masculine nouns of esteem
      • 3.9 Summary of morphosyntactic properties
    • 4. Discussion
    • 5. Conclusion
    • Acknowledgement and Dedication
    • References
    • Appendix. Words with AT as the sole marker of plural number
  • Chapter 16. In further pursuit of the adjective: Evidence from the Siouan language Osage
    • 1. Outline of the problem
    • 2. Three pertinent hallmarks of Siouan and other American languages
    • 3. Related work on Siouan adjectives
    • 4. Varieties of compounded nouns in Osage
    • 5. Phrasal modification
    • 6. Clausal predicates: Adjectives or stative verbs?
      • 6.1 Stative-like predicates without subject agreement
      • 6.2 Stative-like predicates with use of copula
      • 6.3 Subjects of adjectival predicates without subject markers
    • 7. The property Scale
    • 8. Adjective derivation from verbs
    • 9. Summary of distinctions between Osage verbs and adjectives
    • 10. Discussion
    • References
  • Chapter 17. Two suffix combinations in native and non-native English: Novel evidence for morphomic structures
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Suffix ordering in English: History of research, our approach and why suffix combinations are morphomes
    • 3. Two psycholinguistic experiments
      • 3.1 Participants
      • 3.2 Stimuli
      • 3.3 Testing method
      • 3.4 Data analysis
      • 3.5 Results
    • 4. Discussion
    • 5. Conclusion
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
    • Appendix 1. List of suffix combinations (existing and non-existing) used as stimuli
• Part V. Interfaces
  • Chapter 18. A short history of phonology in America: Plus c’est la même chose, plus ça change
    • 1. The early history
    • 2. The rise of generative phonology
      • 2.1 Phonological structure as an aspect of the mind
      • 2.2 The place of universals
    • 3. Phonological theory after Chomsky & Halle (1968)
      • 3.1 The logicism of SPE and reaction to it
      • 3.2 A focus on representations
      • 3.3 The rise of optimality theory
    • 4. Conclusion
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
  • Chapter 19. Realization Optimality Theory: A constraint-based theory of morphology
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Several morphological phenomena
      • 2.1 Blocking and extended exponence
      • 2.2 Affix ordering
      • 2.3 Syncretism
    • 3. Stem formation and stem selection in inflectional morphology
      • 3.1 Stem formation
      • 3.2 Stem selection
    • 4. The interaction of morphology and phonology
    • 5. Realization optimality theory approaches to derivational morphology, compounding, and clitics
      • 5.1 Competition in derivational morphology
      • 5.2 Competition in compounding
      • 5.3 The positioning of clitics
    • 6. Conclusion
    • Acknowledgements
    • Funding
    • This chapter uses the abbreviations
    • References
  • Chapter 20. A-prefixing in the ex-slave narratives
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Who uses a-prefixing?
      • 2.1 Distribution of a-prefixing in time and space
      • 2.2 African-American use of a-prefixing
    • 3. The ex-slave narratives
      • 3.1 The ex-slave narratives as linguistic data
      • 3.2 Description of corpus
    • 4. Form-based analysis
      • 4.1 Forms to which a-prefixing attaches
      • 4.2 Phonological constraints
      • 4.3 Morpho-syntactic distribution of a-prefixing
    • 5. Meaning-based analysis
      • 5.1 Intensive meaning
      • 5.2 A-prefixing in narratives
    • 6. Coalescence of form and meaning: A-prefixing and the progressive
    • 7. Conclusion
    • References
  • Chapter 21. Trajectory of children’s verb formation in Hebrew as a heritage language
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Hebrew as a heritage language
    • 3. The impact of the English language in Israel
    • 4. Israelis in the United States: Dual allegiance to Hebrew and English
    • 5. Maintaining the heritage language: A challenging endeavor
    • 6. Attrition of the heritage language: Focus on Hebrew verb formation
    • 7. Oral narrative data
    • 8. Innovative denominal verb production
    • 9. Longitudinal data: Emergence of innovative blends and an idiosyncratic verb form
    • 10. Conclusion
    • References
  • Chapter 22. A primer for linguists on the reading wars
    • 1. Teaching reading in the nineteenth century (and before)
    • 2. See Dick run
    • 3. Rudolph Flesch and Doctor Seuss: The Fish and the cat
    • 4. From “Let’s Read” to Project Literacy
    • 5. Whole language
    • 6. Who’s right?: Research and meta-studies
    • 7. Politics as usual, and conspiracies Too
    • 8. How to read the reading wars: Beyond name calling
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
• Index of languages
• Index of names
• Index of terms