Conversion in Morphology

Laurie Bauer FRSNZ is Emeritus Professor at Victoria University of Wellington. He has published extensively on morphology, particularly on word formation, and in a number of related areas, such as the description of varieties of English, phonetics, phonology, and the recent history of the English. He is the co-author, with Rochelle Lieber and Ingo Plag, of The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology (OUP, 2013), which won the Leonard Bloomfield Award in 2015.Salvador Valera is Associate Professor at the University of Granada. His research focuses primarily on morphology, especially on conversion and related areas of lexical semantics, and also on syntax. His work has been published in leading journals, and in edited volumes published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, de Gruyter, John Benjamins, and Routledge.

• 1: Laurie Bauer and Salvador Valera: Conversion: The core issuesPart I. Theoretical Issues2: Antonio Fábregas: The analysis of conversion: Historiography3: John Mansfield: Word classes4: Anna M. Thornton: Conversion and inflection5: Alexandra Soares Rodrigues: Conversion and other word-formation processes6: Gianina Iord&achioaia: The position of conversion in word-formation7: Bo:zena Cetnarowska: Conversion and coercion8: Heike Baeskow: The semantics of conversion9: Réka Benczes and Lilla Petronella Szabó: Conversion and figurative language10: Gergana Popova: DirectionalityPart II. Description and Typology11: Akiko Nagano: Japonic: Japanese12: Livio Gaeta: Indo-European: Germanic and Romance13: Magda %Sev%cíková and Jurgis Pakerys: Indo-European: Slavic and Baltic14: Daniel Kaufman, Nathan W. Adamson, Victoria Chen, Bradley McDonnell, and Olivia Waring: Austronesian: Tagalog and Indonesian15: Wolf Dietrich: Tupian: Guaraní16: Olga Lovick: Dene: Upper Tanana17: Giorgio Francesco Arcodia: Sino-Tibetan: Chinese18: László Palágyi: Uralic: Hungarian19: Ora R. Schwarzwald: Semitic: Hebrew20: Pingali Sailaja: Dravidian: Telugu21: Xabier Artiagoitia: BasquePart III. Conclusions22: Laurie Bauer: Retrospective