Competition in Inflection and Word-Formation (Hardcover)

Competition in morphology: A historical outline; Gardani, Francesco, Franz Rainer & Hans Christian Luschutzky.- Part I: Derivational morphology.- Competitors and alternants in linguistic morphology; Aronoff, Mark.- Competition in derivation: What can we learn from French doublets in -age and -ment? Fradin, Bernard.- Competition between event-denoting deverbal nouns and nominal infinitives in Italian; Varvara, Rossella & Roberto Zamparelli.- Rivalry and lack of blocking among Italian and German diminutives in adult and child language; Dressler, Wolfgang U., Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi, Sonja Schwaiger, Jutta Ransmayr, Sabine Sommer-Lolei and Katharina Korecky-Kroll.- Blocking as a function of the nature of linguistic representations: Where psycholinguistics and morphology meet; Versloot, Arjen & Eric Hoekstra.- Part II: Inflectional morphology.- When nobody wins; Gorman, Kyle & Charles Yang.- Competition in Frisian past participles; Anne Merkuur, Jan Don, Eric Hoekstra & Arjen Versloot.- Overabundance: A canonical typology; Anna M. Thornton.- An apparently noncanonical pattern of morphotactic competition; Gregory Stump.- Part III: Multiword expressions and compounding.- Competition between morphological words and multiword expressions; Francesca Masini.- Chinese adjective-noun combinations; Xu Zheng