In construction morphology, complex words are seen as constructions on the word level. The
notion 'construction', a pairing of form and meaning, as developed in the theory 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 …

A new contribution to linguistic theory, this book presents a formal framework for the analysis
of word structure in human language. It sets forth the network of hypotheses constituting …

This book argues (a) that there is no principled way to distinguish inflection and derivation
and (b) that this fatally undermines conventional approaches to morphology. Conceptual …

Features are a central concept in linguistic analysis. They are the basic building blocks of
linguistic units, such as words. For many linguists they offer the most revealing way to …

Syntactic constructions may form an alternative to, or compete with the morphological
expression of semantic and grammatical content. This applies to the passive forms of verbs …

Paradigms that combine synthetic (one-word) and periphrastic forms in complementary
distribution have loomed large in discussions of morphological blocking (McCloskey and …

Paradigmatic gaps ('missing'inflected forms) have traditionally been considered to be the
random detritus of a language's history and marginal exceptions to the normal functioning of …

" Paradigms are primarily and mainly of single words but where short groups of words or
phrases (eg, Latin, and some Greek, perfective passives,) are syntactically comparable to …

Heteroclisis is the property of a lexeme whose inflectional paradigm involves two or more
distinct inflection classes. Although heteroclisis is widely observable, its implications for …