Introduction: Natural Morphology
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Wolfgang U Dressler
Abstract
Preface of the guest-editor and former editor
When resigning from my office as editor of Folia Linguistica, which I held from volume 15 (1981) to 39 (2005), I was asked to guest-edit this first semi-volume 40/1–2 of 2006.
Therefore this introduction has a double function. The first is the deep-felt obligation of the former editor to thank all who have helped me in editing, first the previous and actual members of the editing board, most of all Oskar E. Pfeiffer (Vienna), who has been my alter ego for the whole period of my editorship, and without whose unfailing help and meticulous control of the editing process, I would have been unable to carry out my job. Next I have to thank, in chronological order, Mario Palaschke, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, and Markus A. Pöchtrager, who performed most of the computational work after the transferral of the production from Hungary (where first József Molnár and, after his death, Ferenc Kiefer had overseen it, both to be thanked as well) to Vienna. Many thanks are due to the readers who evaluated the manuscripts submitted, and, finally, to the Secretary/Treasurer Dieter Kastovsky (assisted by Christine Klein), and the members of the Societas Linguistica Europaea for their support.
The second function is the guest-editor's duty to introduce the topic of the special issue on Natural Morphology, a field of research where I have been involved from its very beginning. This issue will illustrate some recent developments.
© Walter de Gruyter
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- Introduction: Natural Morphology
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- Productivity of the Weak Verbs in Romanian
- On the Typology of Inflection Class Systems
- On Spanish Verb Inflection
- The Superstable Marker as an Indicator of Categorial Weakness?
- Case Before Gender in the Acquisition of German
- Crossing Form and Function: First and Second Person Plural Imperatives in the Dialect of Mesocco
- Lexical Blends: Functionally Tuning the Transparency of Complex Words
- Libri: Publications received — Publications reçues — Eingelaufene Literatur
Articles in the same Issue
- Introduction: Natural Morphology
- How to Live Naturally and not be Bothered by Economy
- Productivity of the Weak Verbs in Romanian
- On the Typology of Inflection Class Systems
- On Spanish Verb Inflection
- The Superstable Marker as an Indicator of Categorial Weakness?
- Case Before Gender in the Acquisition of German
- Crossing Form and Function: First and Second Person Plural Imperatives in the Dialect of Mesocco
- Lexical Blends: Functionally Tuning the Transparency of Complex Words
- Libri: Publications received — Publications reçues — Eingelaufene Literatur
