Copies versus Cognates in Bound Morphology

Lars Johanson, is professor in Turcology at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the University of Mainz, Germany. He has published extensively on synchronic and diachronic linguistics, especially in the domains of aspect-mood-tense, language contact, and language typology.Martine Robbeets, Ph.D. (2003), University of Leiden, holds a DFG fellowship at the University of Mainz. Her research is on morphological reconstruction and on the genealogical relationship of Japanese with the Transeurasian languages, areas in which she has several publications.

• PrefaceAbout the ContributorsPart I: Theoretical and typological issues1. Bound morphology in common: copy or cognate?Lars Johanson & Martine Robbeets 2. Non-borrowed non-cognate parallels in bound morphology: Aspects of the phenomenon of shared drift with Eurasian examplesJuha Janhunen3. Selection for m: T pronominals in EurasiaJohanna Nichols4. Plural across inflection and derivation, fusion and agglutinationFrancesco Gardani5. Bound morphology in English (and beyond): copy or cognate?Anthony Grant6. Copiability of (bound) morphologyAd Backus & Anna Verschik7. A variationist solution to apparent copying across related languagesBrian D. JosephPart II: Case StudiesIIa America8. 'Invisible' loans: How to borrow a bound formAlexandra Y. Aikhenvald9. Constraints on morphological borrowing: Evidence from Latin AmericaDik Bakker & Ewald Hekking 10. Morphological borrowing in Sierra PopolucaSalomé Gutiérrez-Morales11. Cognates versus copies in North America: New light on the old discussion on diffusion versus inheritancePeter BakkerIIb Eurasia 12. On the degree of copiability of derivational and inflectional morphology: Evidence from BasqueStig Eliasson 13. Between copy and cognate: the origin of absolutes in Old and Middle EnglishNikki van de Pol14. Copying and cognates in the Balkan SprachbundVictor A. Friedman15. Transfer of morphemes and grammatical structure in Ancient AnatoliaFolke Josephson16. The historical background of the transfer of a Kurdish bound morpheme to Neo-AramaicJudith Josephson17. On the sustainability of inflectional morphologyÉva Á. Csató 18. Foreign and indigenous properties in the vocabulary of Eynu, a secret language spoken in the south of TaklamakanTooru Hayasi19. Deriving insights about Tungusic classification from derivational morphologyLindsay Whaley20. The likelihood of morphological borrowing: The case of Korean and JapaneseJ. Marshall Unger21. Shared verb morphology in the Transeurasian languages: copy or cognate? Martine RobbeetsLanguage IndexSubject Index