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Introduction: advances in morphology: a summary Jan Don and Martin Everaert; Part I. Lexico-Semantic Aspects of Complex Words: 1. Formal semantics and the problem of nominalizations Rochelle Lieber; 2. Semantically subtractive morphology Stephen Anderson; 3. -less and ¿free Mark Aronoff; 4. Instrument Nouns in -one in Latin and Romance Franz Rainer; 5. Prominence in noun-to-verb conversion Heike Baeskow; 6. On Spanish dvandva and its restrictions Antonio Fábregas; Part II. Structure of Complex Words: 7. Estonian case inflection made simple. A case study in word and paradigm morphology with linear discriminative learning Yu-Ying Chuang, Kaidi Lõo, James P. Blevins, and R. Harald Baayen; 8. Uninflectedness: uninflecting, uninflectable, and uninflected words, or the complexity of the simplex Andrew Spencer; 9. Complex exponents Gregory Stump; 10. Derivational patterns in proto-basque word structure Juliette Blevins; 11. The complexity of greek verbal morphology: the case of prefixed verbs Artemis Alexiadou; 12. Affixoids, an intriguing intermediate category Angela Ralli; Part III. Corpus-Based Case Studies: 13. Competition between synthetic nn compounds and nn.GEN phrasal nouns in polish: semantic niches, hapax legomena and low-level construction schemas Bozena Cetnarowska; 14. An s is an s', or is it? Plural and genitive-plural are not homophonous Ingo Plag, Sonia Ben Hedia, Arne Lohmann, and Julia Zimmermann; 15. The role of word-formation families and subfamilies in the organisation of German diminutive compounds Wolfgang U. Dressler, Sonja Schwaiger, and Jutta Ransmayr; 16. Semantic patterns in noun-to-verb conversion in English Salvador Valera; 17. Onomatopoeia: on the crossroads of sound symbolism and word-formation Lívia Körtvélyessy, and Pavol Štekauer; 18. Dingsbums and thingy: placeholders for names in German and other languages Petra M. Vogel.
Summary
Presenting the latest ideas in the study of word-formation and linguistic typology, this volume represents the state-of-the-art in methodological and theoretical approaches to linguistic complexity. It brings together research by leading international morphologists to explore multiple aspects of complex words, across a wide range of languages.
