Interest in morphology has undergone rapid growth over the past two decades and the area is now seen as crucially important, both in relation to other aspects of grammar and in relation to other disciplines. - Brings together articles by authors at the forefront of current morphology research. - Covers traditional issues as well as specific questions that have more recently become the focus of attention. - Explores the role of morphology in a wider perspective: language change, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition. - Zwicky is considered by many to be the leading figure in morphology.

Table of Contents

• List of Contributors
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part I The Phenomena
• 1 Inflection
• 2 Derivation
• 3 Compounding
• 4 Incorporation
• 5 Clitics
• 6 Morphophonological Operations
• 7 Phonological Constraints on Morphological Rules
• Part II Morphology and Grammar
• 8 Morphology and Syntax
• 9 Morphology and Agreement
• 10 Morphology and Argument Structure
• 11 Morphology and the Lexicon: Lexicalization and Productivity
• 12 Morphology and Lexical Semantics
• 13 Morphology and Pragmatics
• Part III Theoretical Issues
• 14 Prosodic Morphology
• 15 Word Syntax
• 16 Paradigmatic Structure: Inflectional Paradigms and Morphological Classes
• 17 Morphology as Component or Module: Mapping Principle Approaches
• Part IV Morphology in a Wider Setting
• 18 Diachronic Morphology
• 19 Morphology in Language Acquisition
• 20 Morphology and Aphasia
• 21 Morphology in Word Recognition
• 22 Morphology in Language Production with Special Reference to Connectionism
• Part V Morphological Sketches of Individual Languages
• 23 Archi (Caucasian—Daghestanian)
• 24 Celtic (Indo-European)
• 25 Chichewa (Bantu)
• 26 Chukchee (Paleo-Siberian)
• 27 Hua (Papuan)
• 28 Malagasy (Austronesian)
• 29 Qafar (East Cushitic)
• 30 Slave (Northern Athapaskan)
• 31 Wari' (Amazonian)
• 32 Warumungu (Australian—Pama-Nyungan)
• References