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  • Marcia Haag , Sedigheh Moradi , Andrija Petrovic and Janie Rees-Miller
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Abstract

It is of course too big a promise that this volume would deliver summaries of important work in all subfields of the vast and ancient discipline of morphology, like a medieval street fair of arcane morphological ideas. This is not an encyclopedia, despite the title. Rather, we have attempted here to provide a view of where the field 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. The place where the authors of these seemingly disparate articles have a common touchstone is in their focus on a word-based, paradigmatic approach to morphology, which was brought to attention in the modern era by the likes of Matthews (1965), Aronoff (1976, 1994), and Anderson (1992). The chapters of this book show that this perspective accounts for both the independence of morphology and for its interactions with syntax and phonology. One prominent name missing from the list of contributors is Mark Aronoff. This is hardly an accident: this volume was conceived as a way to shine light on the importance of his work by contributors who in virtually all cases have collaborated with or been mentored by Prof. Aronoff. We hope that he will be honored with the research we have produced and see his influence in it.

Abstract

It is of course too big a promise that this volume would deliver summaries of important work in all subfields of the vast and ancient discipline of morphology, like a medieval street fair of arcane morphological ideas. This is not an encyclopedia, despite the title. Rather, we have attempted here to provide a view of where the field 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. The place where the authors of these seemingly disparate articles have a common touchstone is in their focus on a word-based, paradigmatic approach to morphology, which was brought to attention in the modern era by the likes of Matthews (1965), Aronoff (1976, 1994), and Anderson (1992). The chapters of this book show that this perspective accounts for both the independence of morphology and for its interactions with syntax and phonology. One prominent name missing from the list of contributors is Mark Aronoff. This is hardly an accident: this volume was conceived as a way to shine light on the importance of his work by contributors who in virtually all cases have collaborated with or been mentored by Prof. Aronoff. We hope that he will be honored with the research we have produced and see his influence in it.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Chapter 1. All things morphology 1
  4. Part I. Paradigms
  5. Chapter 2. Making sense of morphology 17
  6. Chapter 3. A formal restriction on gender resolution 41
  7. Part II. Words, stems, and affixes
  8. Chapter 4. Signs and words 57
  9. Chapter 5. Leaving the stem by itself 81
  10. Chapter 6. Stem constancy under the microscope 99
  11. Chapter 7. Major lexical categories and graphemic weight 117
  12. Chapter 8. Word formation in the brain 127
  13. Chapter 9. The suffixing preference 147
  14. Part III. Competition, inheritance, and defaults
  15. Chapter 10. Feature-based competition 171
  16. Chapter 11. Competition in comparatives 199
  17. Chapter 12. Multi-layered default in Ripano 215
  18. Part IV. Morphomes
  19. Chapter 13. Morphomes all the way down! 239
  20. Chapter 14. Conditional exponence 255
  21. Chapter 15. My favorite morphome 279
  22. Chapter 16. In further pursuit of the adjective 289
  23. Chapter 17. Two-suffix combinations in native and non-native English 305
  24. Part V. Interfaces
  25. Chapter 18. A short history of phonology in America 327
  26. Chapter 19. Realization Optimality Theory 349
  27. Chapter 20. A-prefixing in the ex-slave narratives 377
  28. Chapter 21. Trajectory of children’s verb formation in Hebrew as a heritage language 395
  29. Chapter 22. A primer for linguists on the reading wars 415
  30. Index of languages 431
  31. Index of names 433
  32. Index of terms 435
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Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Chapter 1. All things morphology 1
  4. Part I. Paradigms
  5. Chapter 2. Making sense of morphology 17
  6. Chapter 3. A formal restriction on gender resolution 41
  7. Part II. Words, stems, and affixes
  8. Chapter 4. Signs and words 57
  9. Chapter 5. Leaving the stem by itself 81
  10. Chapter 6. Stem constancy under the microscope 99
  11. Chapter 7. Major lexical categories and graphemic weight 117
  12. Chapter 8. Word formation in the brain 127
  13. Chapter 9. The suffixing preference 147
  14. Part III. Competition, inheritance, and defaults
  15. Chapter 10. Feature-based competition 171
  16. Chapter 11. Competition in comparatives 199
  17. Chapter 12. Multi-layered default in Ripano 215
  18. Part IV. Morphomes
  19. Chapter 13. Morphomes all the way down! 239
  20. Chapter 14. Conditional exponence 255
  21. Chapter 15. My favorite morphome 279
  22. Chapter 16. In further pursuit of the adjective 289
  23. Chapter 17. Two-suffix combinations in native and non-native English 305
  24. Part V. Interfaces
  25. Chapter 18. A short history of phonology in America 327
  26. Chapter 19. Realization Optimality Theory 349
  27. Chapter 20. A-prefixing in the ex-slave narratives 377
  28. Chapter 21. Trajectory of children’s verb formation in Hebrew as a heritage language 395
  29. Chapter 22. A primer for linguists on the reading wars 415
  30. Index of languages 431
  31. Index of names 433
  32. Index of terms 435
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