Leitmotifs in Natural Morphology

• Preface
• A. Introduction
• I. Introduction | p. 3
• 1. What is naturalness?
• 2. Inflection and word formation
• 3. Towards a theory of morphological naturalness
• 4. The structure of a theory of naturalness
• 5. Evidence for naturalness
• 6. The semiotic framework of natural morphology
• 7. Divergences and convergences among proponents of natural approaches to morphology
• Notes
• B. Naturalness in Inflection
• I. System-independent morphological naturalness
  Willi Mayerthaler | p. 25
• 0. Introduction
• 1. Universal grammar and markedness
• 2. Preference theories
• 3. Some other prerequisites of theoretical morphology
• 4. Principles of morphological markedness theory
• 5. What is a ‘theory’?
• 6. Appendix on attractors in catastrophe theory
• Notes
• II. System-dependent morphological naturalness in inflection
  Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel | p. 59
• 0. Naturalness, morphology and language system
• 1. System-dependent naturalness I: System-congruity
• 2. System-dependent naturalness II: Stability of inflectional classes
• 3. System-congruity and class-stability: Productivity in inflectional morphology
• 4. Naturalness principles of inflectional morphology
• Notes
• C. Naturalness in Word Formation
• I. Word formation as part of natural morphology
  Wolfgang U. Dressler | p. 99
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Iconicity in word formation
• 3. Indexicality in word formation
• 4. The scale of (bi)uniqueness in word formation
• 5. Signans shapes adequate for motivation in word formation
• 6. Typological adequacy of word formation rules
• 7. System adequacy (congruity) of word formation rules
• 8. Inflection vs. derivation again
• Notes
• II. Productivity and diachronic change in morphology
  Oswald Panagl | p. 127
• 0. Introduction
• 1. Interpretations of productivity
• 2. Vedic root-nouns and Ancient Greek diminutives
• 3. Semantic predictability (transparency)
• 4. Transition from word formation into inflection
• 5. Hierarchy of productivity in types of word formation
• 6. Conclusion on productivity in corpus languages: The Latine Supine in -(t)um — a Case Study of Categorial Change
• 7. From derivational to inflectional morphology
• 8. Reasons for loss of productivity
• 9. Indo-European cognates
• Notes
• Abbreviations | p. 153
• Subject index | p. 165

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