All Things Morphology : Its Independence and Its Interfaces.

Intro -- ALL THINGS MORPHOLOGY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1. All things morphology: An introduction -- 1. Reaching back: Reinterpreting traditional views -- 2. Morphemes and the autonomy of morphology -- 3. Autonomous and word-based morphology: Aronovian perspective -- 4. Outline of the book -- 4.1 Paradigms -- 4.2 Words, stems, and affixes -- 4.3 Competition, inheritance, and defaults -- 4.4 Morphomes -- 4.5 Interfaces -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Part I. Paradigms -- Chapter 2. Making sense of morphology: Foxes, hedgehogs and a calculus of infinitesimals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Early systemic intuitions concerning Item and Pattern models -- 3. The mirage of space between diachrony and synchrony: Systemic morphological organization in Māori and Baale -- 4. The mirage of space between diachrony and synchrony -- 5. Concluding observations -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 3. A formal restriction on gender resolution -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Monotonicity -- 3. Gender resolution rules -- 3.1 Patterns of resolution -- 3.2 Typologically attested patterns of resolution -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Part II. Words, stems, and affixes -- Chapter 4. Signs and words -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sign words are similar to spoken words -- 2.1 Constraints -- 2.2 Linear morphological processes -- 3. Sign words are different from spoken words -- 3.1 Meaningful meaningless parts -- 3.2 Iconically motivated, simultaneous morphology -- 3.3 Classifier constructions: Hybrids of lexical and gestural elements -- 3.4 Hybrid forms in creative performance: The Ebisu Sign Language Theatre Laboratory -- 4. Language begins with the word -- 4.1 Words at the outset -- 4.2 Lexical variation in the community -- 5. The birth of abstract productive morphology -- 6. Summary and conclusion: What's in a word?.

References -- Chapter 5. Leaving the stem by itself -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The quest for stem allomorphy -- 3. Automatic inference of stems -- 3.1 Alignment -- 3.2 Unique discontinuous stems -- 3.3 Sets of continuous stems -- 4. How useful are continuous stem allomorphs? -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- References -- Chapter 6. Stem constancy under the microscope: A systematic language comparison of types and limitations of stem spelling -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Stem constancy -- 2.1 Means of stem constancy -- 2.2 Domain-dependent limitations of stem constancy -- 2.3 Positional localization of deviations -- 2.4 Systematicity of deviations -- 3. Summary and preview of future research -- References -- Chapter 7. Major lexical categories and graphemic weight -- 1. How did we get here? -- 2. The three letter rule -- 3. Why this regularity? -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Results -- 6. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 8. Word formation in the brain: Data from aphasia and related disorders -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Neuropsychological syndromes -- 3. Morphological errors -- 4. Decomposition and levels in lexical processing -- 5. Regular and irregular inflection -- 6. Gender inflection -- 7. Derivation -- 8. The independence of inflection and derivation -- 9. Morphology without phonology -- 10. Compounding -- 11. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9. The suffixing preference: A preliminary report on processing affixes in Georgian -- 1. The Hawkins-Cutler hypothesis and subsequent work -- 2. Overview of the morphology studied -- 3. Experiment 1 -- 3.1 Materials -- 3.2 Subjects and methods -- 3.3 Results and discussion -- 4. Experiment 2 -- 4.1 Materials -- 4.2 Subjects and methods -- 4.3 Results and discussion -- 5. Concluding discussion -- Funding -- References -- Appendix A. Real verbs with prefix v- or suffix -s.

Appendix B. Nonce verbs with prefix v- or suffix -s -- Appendix C. Real complex verbs with prefix v- and suffix -s -- Appendix D. Complex nonce words with v- and -s -- Appendix E. Real words with prefix i- or suffix -d -- Appendix F. Nonce words with i- and -d -- Part III. Competition, inheritance, and defaults -- Chapter 10. Feature-based competition: A thousand years of Slavonic possessives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Feature-based competition -- 3. Motivated feature-based competition -- 4. Unmotivated feature-based competition -- 5. The nature of the competition -- 6. The competition in diachrony -- 6.1 A cautionary note -- 6.2 The key developments -- 6.3 Outcomes in languages where the dual has been lost -- 6.4 Dual preserved: First outcome: Upper and Lower Sorbian -- 6.5 Dual preserved: Second outcome: Slovenian -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- References -- Chapter 11. Competition in comparatives: A look at Romance scenarios -- 1. Comparatives from Latin to Romance -- 2. Synthetic and analytic expression of 'better', 'worse', 'bigger' and 'smaller' in Romance: Theoretical possibilities and descriptions in grammars -- 2.1 Scenario 1: The analytic construction blocks the synthetic construction -- 2.2 Scenario 2: The synthetic construction blocks the analytic construction -- 2.3 Scenario 3: Both constructions exist, and are used interchangeably -- 2.4 Scenario 4: Both constructions exist, and are used in different contexts -- 2.5 Interim conclusions -- 3. Più buono vs. migliore in Italian: Niches -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 12. Multi-layered default in Ripano -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Inheritance and default in nominal morphology -- 2.1 Noun inflectional classes -- 2.2 The rise of overt gender in Ripano -- 2.3 Adjective inflectional classes.

3. Two syntactic defaults in Ripano: Preliminaries on Ripano syntax -- 3.1 Normal-case default -- 3.2 Exceptional-case default -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- References -- Part IV. Morphomes -- Chapter 13. Morphomes all the way down! -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two types of paradigm -- 3. Morphomic features in form paradigms -- 4. All form paradigm features are morphomic -- 5. Two types of feature -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- References -- Chapter 14. Conditional exponence -- 1. Introduction: Exponence can be conditional -- 2. Conditional exponence in Breton verb inflection -- 3. What is rule combination? -- Asymmetrical rule oppositions -- Dependent rules -- Processing frequent affix sequences -- 4. Conditional exponence as a kind of rule combination -- 5. A formal analysis of conditional exponence Breton verb inflection -- 6. Conclusions -- 7. Appendix: Further implications of rule combination in Breton -- Irregular verbs -- Conjugating prepositions -- Dialectal variation -- Abbreviations -- References -- Chapter 15. My favorite morphome: The Arabic suffix AT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The phonological level -- 3. The morphological level -- 3.1 Morphological functions: Feminine forms -- 3.2 Morphological functions: Singulative for mass nouns -- 3.3 Morphological functions: Gerund for action -- 3.4 Morphological functions: Plural for human nouns -- 3.5 Morphological functions: Component of broken plural -- 3.6 Morphological functions: Gerunds of certain verb classes -- 3.7 Morphological functions (unproductive): In numerals -- 3.8 Morphological functions (unproductive): Masculine nouns of esteem -- 3.9 Summary of morphosyntactic properties -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgement and Dedication -- References -- Appendix. Words with AT as the sole marker of plural number.

Chapter 16. In further pursuit of the adjective: Evidence from the Siouan language Osage -- 1. Outline of the problem -- 2. Three pertinent hallmarks of Siouan and other American languages -- 3. Related work on Siouan adjectives -- 4. Varieties of compounded nouns in Osage -- 5. Phrasal modification -- 6. Clausal predicates: Adjectives or stative verbs? -- 6.1 Stative-like predicates without subject agreement -- 6.2 Stative-like predicates with use of copula -- 6.3 Subjects of adjectival predicates without subject markers -- 7. The property Scale -- 8. Adjective derivation from verbs -- 9. Summary of distinctions between Osage verbs and adjectives -- 10. Discussion -- References -- Chapter 17. Two suffix combinations in native and non-native English: Novel evidence for morphomic structures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Suffix ordering in English: History of research, our approach and why suffix combinations are morphomes -- 3. Two psycholinguistic experiments -- 3.1 Participants -- 3.2 Stimuli -- 3.3 Testing method -- 3.4 Data analysis -- 3.5 Results -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix 1. List of suffix combinations (existing and non-existing) used as stimuli -- Part V. Interfaces -- Chapter 18. A short history of phonology in America: Plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change -- 1. The early history -- 2. The rise of generative phonology -- 2.1 Phonological structure as an aspect of the mind -- 2.2 The place of universals -- 3. Phonological theory after Chomsky &amp -- Halle (1968) -- 3.1 The logicism of SPE and reaction to it -- 3.2 A focus on representations -- 3.3 The rise of optimality theory -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 19. Realization Optimality Theory: A constraint-based theory of morphology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Several morphological phenomena.

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