This volume provides an introduction to word and paradigm models of morphology and the
general perspectives on linguistic morphology that they embody. The recent revitalization of …

Geert Booij's popular textbook on the structure of words has been revised and updated in a
third edition. The book covers every aspect of morphological theory and the analysis of …

Sometimes dismissed as linguistically epiphenomenal, inflectional paradigms are, in reality,
the interface of a language's morphology with its syntax and semantics. Drawing on …

English Lexicogenesis investigates the processes by which novel words are coined in
English, and how they are variously discarded or adopted, and frequently then adapted …

This study deals with a significant morphological difference between Latin and Romance,
namely that the latter has pervasive patterns of root-allomorphy absent from the former. Of …

This book considers the evolution of the grammatical structure of words in the more general
contexts of human evolution and the origins of language. The consensus in many fields is …

This book provides the fullest account ever published of the external influences on English
during the first thousand years of its formation. In doing so it makes profound contributions to …

Overabundance occurs when two or more forms are available to realize the same cell in an
inflectional paradigm, as in It. devo/debbo 'must. 1sg. prs. ind'. Such multiple forms, called …

Systematic variation in form between semantic equivalents across languages is a key
explanandum of linguistic theory. Two contrasting views of the role of lexical semantics in …

This book aims to assess the nature of morphological complexity, and the properties that
distinguish it from the complexity manifested in other components of language. Of the many …