Foreword and acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword and acknowledgements vii
4. Editors’ introduction 1
5. Affixation vs. conversion. 15
6. The -alis/-aris allomorphy revisited 33
7. French property nouns based on toponyms or ethnic adjectives 53
8. Morphological variation in the construction of French names for inhabitants 75
9. The invisible hand of grammaticalization 89
10. Paradigmatic realignment and morphological change 107
11. Areal-typological aspects of word-formation 129
12. Variation and change in morphology and syntax 149
13. Optional multiple plural marking in Maay 177
14. Lettered words 193
15. Word creation 201
16. Pleonastic morphology dies hard 217
17. Index of languages and terms 245
18. Index of subjects and terms 247