Editors’ introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword & acknowledgments vii
4. Editors’ introduction ix
5. Part I. Regularity, irregularity, and analogy
6. Arguments from Lovari loan-verb adaptation for an analogy-based analysis of verbal systems 3
7. Possible and impossible variation in Hungarian 23
8. Variation in the possessive allomorphy of Hungarian 51
9. Revisiting exocentricity in compounding 65
10. A constructionist account of the Modern Dutch adnominal genitive 83
11. Part II. The role of frequency in morphological complexity, morphological change and language acquisition
12. Perspectives on morphological complexity 107
13. Morphological complexity and unsupervised learning 135
14. A working typology of multiple exponence 163
15. Linguistic self-regulation 189
16. Suffix predictability and stem transparency in the acquisition of German noun plurals 217
17. Acquisition of German diminutive formation and compounding in a comparative perspective 237
18. Index 265