Yearbook of Morphology 2005

Geert Booij is professor of general linguistics, well-known specialist in the subdiscipline of morphology, has published widely on this topic since 1977 in books and international journals. Recently he published a textbook on morphology with Oxford university Press: The Grammar of words (2005). Jaap van Marleis professor of language and culture. Specialist in research on American Dutch. Has published widely on morphology and its fate in language contact and language change.

• Articles.- Word-based declensions in Estonian.- Do affixes have meaning? Polarity in the Toten dialect of Norwegian meets morphological theory.- On the interaction of phonology and morphology in language acquisition and German and Dutch Broca’s Aphasia: the case of inflected verbs.- On the typology of state/change of state alternations.- Pleonasm and hypercharacterisation.- Pulaar verbal extensions and phonologically driven affix order.- Declension hopping in dialectal Croatian: Two predictions of frequency.- Referrals and morphomes in Sora verb inflection.- Discussion: Paradigm Function Morphology.- Affixes, stems and allomorphic conditioning in paradigm function morphology.- Some criticisms of Carstairs-McCarthy’s conclusions.- Book reviews.- Paul Boucher (ed.), Many Morphologies. Sommerville: Cascadilla Press, 2002, xvi + 267 p. ISBN 1-57473-025-8.- Danielle Corbin, Pierre Corbin, and Martine Temple (eds.), Lexique 16 (2004) La formation des mots: horizons actuels. Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. EUR 23.00. ISBN 2-85939-844-9.- Laurie Bauer, A Glossary of Morphology. Edinburgh University Press, 2004. ISBN 0 7486 1853 8, 124 p. Price GBP 7.99.- Piet van Sterkenburg (ed.), Linguistics Today—Facing a Greater Challenge. Amsterdam: Philadelphia, 2004, 367 p. ISBN 90 2723223 7. US D 192.- Book information.- Book information.