Morphology

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The New Arabic Lexicon and its Words: Root-based and templatic morphosyntax

Abdelkader Fassi Fehri

Root syntax, with roots as primitive lexical units, is an influential theme in building the lexicon in linguistic theory, typically in Distributed Morphology, and the generative model of minimal computation. Implementing important fragments of the Arabic lexicon, the book presents a comprehensive… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 21] 2026. xi, 285 pp.

Null or Nothing: Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology

Edited by Peter Herbeck and Natascha Pomino

Zero elements are used by several theories in morphology and syntax as analytical tool, but the question of whether phonologically empty elements should be structurally present or not has been a controversial issue from the very beginning. In addition to analyses that work with zero, there are also… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 291] 2026. ix, 379 pp.

The Boundary between Grammar and Lexicon: Evidence from Japanese verb morphology

Brent de Chene

All linguists recognize that competence in a natural language involves knowledge of a lexicon or dictionary; most assume that it also involves knowledge of a grammatical system. Just where the boundary between the lexicon and the grammar lies, however, is a question on which there is little… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 368] 2025. xvii, 267 pp.

Morphology by Serial Optimization

Edited by Gereon Müller

Harmonic Serialism is a derivational version of Optimality Theory that has widely been pursued for phonology and syntax but so far much less for morphology. The harmonic serialist approach to inflectional morphology underlying the contributions to the present volume is virtually unique in that it… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 289] 2025. v, 348 pp.

Competition in Word-Formation

Edited by Alexandra Bagasheva, Akiko Nagano and Vincent Renner

This volume focuses on a number of interrelated issues in the theorizing and interpretation of morphological rivalry, including the differences between a semasiological and an onomasiological approach to competition phenomena in word-formation, the scope of such phenomena (micro-level rivalry… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 284] 2024. vi, 352 pp.

The Fine-grained Structure of the Lexical Area: Gender, appreciatives and nominal suffixes in Spanish

Antonio Fábregas

This is the first book that presents a complete description and analysis of the Spanish suffixes that alter the grammatical behaviour of nouns and adjectives without changing their grammatical category, supporting a fine-grained decomposition of the syntactic area where these word classes are… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 39] 2024. xiii, 394 pp.

English Complex Words: Exercises in construction and translation

Piotr Twardzisz

English Complex Words is a lively, essential companion for multilingual explorations of word-formation processes, both in English and across 40 other languages. It offers today’s broadest available coverage of English prefixation, suffixation and compounding. Comprising a treasury of real language… read more

[Not in series, 242] 2023. xi, 392 pp.

Extravagant Morphology: Studies in rule-bending, pattern-extending and theory-challenging morphology

Edited by Matthias Eitelmann and Dagmar Haumann

Taking extra-vagans literally (Lat. ‘wandering outside, out of bounds’), this volume comprises nine case studies on extravagant morphology ranging from pattern-extending derivational processes via theory-challenging compounding processes to interface-straddling morphosyntactic phenomena. As a… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 223] 2022. v, 258 pp.

Paradigms in Word Formation: Theory and applications

Edited by Alba E. Ruz, Cristina Fernández-Alcaina and Cristina Lara-Clares

The focus of Paradigms in Word Formation: Theory and applications is on the relevance of paradigms for linguistic description. Paradigmatic organization has traditionally been considered an inherent feature of inflectional morphology, but research in the last decades clearly shows the existence of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 225] 2022. vii, 382 pp.

The Acquisition of Complex Morphology: Insights from Murrinhpatha

William Forshaw

Many theories of language acquisition struggle to account for the morphological complexity and diversity of the world’s languages. This book examines the acquisition of complex morphology of Murrinhpatha, a polysynthetic language of Northern Australia. It considers semi-naturalistic data from five… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 30] 2021. xvi, 171 pp.

The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology: A cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Veronika Mattes, Sabine Sommer-Lolei, Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler

This book offers the first systematic study of the early phases in the acquisition of derivational morphology from a cross-linguistic and typological perspective. It presents ten empirical longitudinal studies in genealogically and typologically diverse languages (Indo-European, Finno-Ugric,… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 66] 2021. ix, 307 pp.

All Things Morphology: Its independence and its interfaces

Edited by Sedigheh Moradi, Marcia Haag, Janie Rees-Miller and Andrija Petrovic

This book provides a view of where the field of morphology has been and where it is today within a particular theoretical framework, gathering up new and representative work in morphology by both eminent and emerging scholars, and touching on a very wide range of topics, approaches, and theoretical… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 353] 2021. vii, 439 pp.

Morphological Complexity within and across Boundaries: In honour of Aslı Göksel

Edited by Aslı Gürer, Dilek Uygun-Gökmen and Balkız Öztürk

This volume brings together a collection of original articles investigating state-of-the-art themes in morphology. The papers in the volume provide an in-depth analysis for spoken and sign languages within morphological word domain, morphosyntax and morphophonology. Bringing data from a variety of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 215] 2020. vi, 421 pp.

Morphologically Derived Adjectives in Spanish

Antonio Fábregas

This is the first book that presents a complete empirical description and theoretical analysis of all major classes of derived adjectives in Spanish, both deverbal and denominal. The reader will find here both a detailed empirical description of the syntactic, morphological and semantic properties… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 30] 2020. xi, 377 pp.

Morphological Variation: Theoretical and empirical perspectives

Edited by Antje Dammel and Oliver Schallert

Morphological variation is a rather young, yet fascinating topic to study in its own right because it offers challenging evidence both for the autonomy of morphology (morphomic processes) as well as for its tight interconnection with other grammatical domains, notably phonology and syntax. Covering… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 207] 2019. v, 345 pp.

Category Change from a Constructional Perspective

Edited by Kristel Van Goethem, Muriel Norde, Evie Coussé and Gudrun Vanderbauwhede

Category change, broadly defined as the shift from one word class to another, is often studied as part of other changes, such as grammaticalization or lexicalization, but not in its own right. This volume offers a survey of different types of category change and their properties, e.g. abrupt versus… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 20] 2018. vii, 314 pp.

Reshaping of the Nominal Inflection in Early Northern West Germanic

Elżbieta Adamczyk

The book is a comprehensive corpus study of analogical developments in the nominal morphology of four Northern West Germanic languages: Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon and Old Low Franconian. It examines the patterns of reorganisation of the nominal paradigms, focusing on the analogical… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 31] 2018. xxvii, 572 pp.

Cultural Linguistics: Cultural conceptualisations and language

Farzad Sharifian †

This ground-breaking book marks a milestone in the history of the newly developed field of Cultural Linguistics, a multidisciplinary area of research that explores the relationship between language and cultural conceptualisations. The most authoritative book in the field to date, it outlines the… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 8] 2017. xvii, 171 pp.

Nominal Compound Acquisition

Edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler, F. Nihan Ketrez and Marianne Kilani-Schoch

This book offers a systematic study of the emergence and early development of compound nouns in first language acquisition from a cross-linguistic and typological perspective. The language sample is both genealogically and typologically diversified, ranging from languages rich in compounds, such as… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 61] 2017. viii, 310 pp.

Studies in Lexicogrammar: Theory and applications

Edited by Grzegorz Drożdż

The leitmotif, but not exclusive theme, of the present volume is Ronald Langacker’s (1987) thesis that “lexicon, morphology, and syntax form a continuum of symbolic units serving to structure conceptual content for expressive purposes”. The concept of the lexicogrammar continuum contrasts… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 54] 2016. vii, 284 pp.