Full Description
The papers in this volume derive from the 13th International Morphology Meeting (Vienna 2008). They all address the main topic of the meeting, viz. variation and change in morphology. Inflectional and derivational morphology are represented on equal terms. The focus is on cases of language-internal variation, such as pattern competition, base variation, form-function mismatches, or morphological pleonasm. Other recurring themes are language contact as a cause of variation, the output-orientedness of morphological patterns, and linguistic economy.The contributions cover a wide variety of languages, both Indo-European (Romance, Germanic and Slavic; Latin, Lithuanian and Romani) and non-Indo-European (Hungarian, Maay, Chinese).
Contents
1. Foreword and acknowledgements; 2. Editors' introduction; 3. Affixation vs. conversion.: The Resolution of conflicting patterns (by Bauer, Laurie); 4. The -alis/-aris allomorphy revisited (by Cser, Andras); 5. French property nouns based on toponyms or ethnic adjectives: A case of base variation (by Dal, Georgette); 6. Morphological variation in the construction of French names for inhabitants (by Eggert, Elmar); 7. The invisible hand of grammaticalization: West-Germanic substitutive infinitive and the prefix ge- (by Gaeta, Livio); 8. Paradigmatic realignment and morphological change: Diachronic deponency in Network Morphology (by Hippisley, Andrew); 9. Areal-typological aspects of word-formation: The case of aktionsart-formation in German, Hungarian, Slavic, Baltic, Romani and Yiddish (by Kiefer, Ferenc); 10. Variation and change in morphology and syntax: Romance object agreement (by Loporcaro, Michele); 11. Optional multiple plural marking in Maay (by Paster, Mary); 12. Lettered words: Using Roman letters to create words in Chinese (by Riha, Helena); 13. Word creation: Definition - Function - Typology (by Ronneberger-Sibold, Elke); 14. Pleonastic morphology dies hard: Change and variation of definiteness inflection in Lithuanian (by Stolz, Thomas); 15. Index of languages and terms; 16. Index of subjects and terms
