The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology [Hardcover]

The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphologyis intended as a companion volume toThe Oxford Handbook of Compounding(OUP 2009) Written by distinguished scholars, its 41 chapters aim to provide a comprehensive and thorough overview of the study of derivational morphology.

Thehandbookbegins with an overview and a consideration of definitional matters, distinguishing derivation from inflection on the one hand and compounding on the other. From a formal perspective, the handbook treats affixation (prefixation, suffixation, infixation, circumfixation, etc.), conversion, reduplication, root and pattern and other templatic processes, as well as prosodic and subtractive means of forming new words. From a semantic perspective, it looks at the processes that form various types of adjectives, adverbs, nouns, and verbs, as well as evaluatives and the rarer processes that form function words. The book also surveys derivation in fifteen language families that are widely dispersed in terms of both geographical location and typological characteristics.

Part I
1. Introduction: The scope of the handbooks,Rochelle Lieber and Pavol Štekauer
2. Delineating derivation and inflection,Pius ten Hacken
3. Delineating derivation and compounding,Susan Olsen
4. Theoretical approaches to derivation,Rochelle Lieber
5. Productivity, blocking, and lexicalization,Mark Aronoff and Mark Lindsay
6. Methodological issues in studying derivation,Rochelle Lieber
7. Experimental and psycholinguistic approaches,Harald Baayen
8. Concatenative derivation,Laurie Bauer
9. Infixation,Juliette Blevins
10. Conversion,Salvador Valera
11. Non-concatenative derivation: Reduplication,Sharon Inkelas
12. Non-concatenative derivation: Other processes,Stuart Davis and Natsuko Tsujimura
13. Allomorphy,Mary Pastelã«