Table of contents

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