Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. The lexical bases of morphological well-formedness 5
5. 2. On category asymmetries in derivational morphology 17
6. 3. What you can do with derivational morphology 37
7. 4. How stems and affixes interact 49
8. 5. Adjectival past-participle formation as an unaccusativity diagnostic in English and in Polish 59
9. 6. Morphophonological alternations 73
10. 7. Morphology, typology, computation 91
11. 8. On contrastive word-formation semantics 105
12. 9. The acquisition of German plurals 117
13. 10. Language-specific effects on the development of written morphology 129
14. 11. Graded semantic and phonological similarity effects in morphologically complex words 137
15. 12. Passive in Arabic and English 149
16. 13. Lexical access in Bulgarian perfective vs. imperfective verbs 161
17. 14. Inflectional morphemes as syntactic heads 175
18. 15. The problem of morphological description of verbal forms ambivalent between finite and nonfinite uses 185
19. 16. “Anomalies” of cross-reference marking 199
20. 17. Is there a morphological parser? 213
21. 18. External and internal causation in morphological change 227
22. 19. Towards a formal concept ‘zero linguistic sign’ 241
23. 20. “Constructional” and “structural” iconicity of noun vs. adjective/pronoun markers in the Slavic nominal inflection 259
24. 21. Morphological splits – Iconicity and Optimality 271
25. 22. Gender inversion in Romance derivatives with -arius 283
26. 23. Polysynthetic word formation 293
27. 24. On the mental representation of Russian aspect relations 305
28. Language index 313
29. Subject index 315