MORPHOLOGY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- PREFACE -- Table of contents -- PART I: MORPHOLOGY AND MORPHO-PHONEMICS -- CHAPTER I: TOWARD EXPLANATION IN MORPHOLOGY -- 1. Morphological fusion -- 2. Allomorphy -- 3. Grammatical meaning -- CHAPTER 2: SEMANTIC DETERMINANTS OF INFLECTIONAL EXPRESSION -- 1. Lexical, inflectional and syntactic expression. -- 2. Determinants of inflectional expression -- 2.1. Relevance -- 2.2. Generality -- 3. Inflectional categories -- 4. Cross-linguistic survey -- 5. The distribution of verbal categories -- 6. The order of morphemes -- 7. Degree of fusion with the stem -- 8. Explaining the correlations -- 9. Morphology and word order -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3: THE ORGANIZATION OF PARADIGMS -- 1. The basic-derived relation -- 2. Degree of relatedness -- 3. Experimental evidence -- 4. Velar subjunctives -- 5. Local markedness -- 6. Summary -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 4: THE LEXICAL / DERIVATIONAL / INFLECTIONAL CONTINUUM -- 1. Distinguishing derivation from inflection -- 1.1. Relevance and two types of derivational morphology -- 1.2. Lexical generality -- 1.3. Causes of lack of lexical generality -- 2. Lexical split -- 3. Inflectional split -- 4. Degree of fusion -- 5. The difference between derivational and inflectional meaning -- 5.1. The expression of aspect -- 5.2. Number in verbs -- 6. Compounding and incorporation -- 7. Conclusion -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 5: TWO PRINCIPLES IN A DYNAMIC MODELOF LEXICAL REPRESENTATION -- 1. Rote or combination? -- 2. Lexical representation of regular forms -- 3. Differences between regular and irregular forms -- 4. Lexical strength -- 5. Lexical connection -- 6. Evidence for varying lexical strength -- 7. Evidence for degrees of lexical connection -- 8. The representation of a complex paradigm -- 9. Cross-paradigmatic relations -- 10. Morphological classes -- 11. Productivity.

12. Summary of the proposed model -- 13. Conclusion -- NOTES -- PART II: ASPECT, TENSE AND MOOD INFLECTIONS IN THE LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD -- Introduction to Part II -- CHAPTER 6: ASPECT -- 1. Perfective / imperfective, habitual / continuous -- 2. Formal correlates of generality of meaning -- 3. Perfective / imperfective and the inflectional - derivational scale. -- 4. Markedness values -- 5. Inceptive aspect -- 6. Iterative aspect -- 7. Less usual meanings for "aspects -- 8. Aspect as a grammatical category -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 7: TENSE -- 1. Present and past -- 2. Future -- 3. Anterior -- 4. Tense as a grammatical category -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 8: MOOD -- 1. Mood and modality -- 2. The functions of mood -- 3. Imperatives and related moods -- 4. Interrogatives -- 5. Negatives -- 6. Potential, dubitative and related functions -- 7. Evidentials -- 8. Emphatics -- 9. Subjunctives and conditionals -- 10. Conclusion -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 9: ASPECT, TENSE AND MOOD AS GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES -- 1. MOOD as a cross-linguistic grammatical category -- 2. The ordering of aspect, tense and mood markers -- 3. Factors determining the development of verbal inflection -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 10: CONCLUSION -- 1. The interaction of rules and rote processing -- 2. Diachronic mechanisms -- NOTES -- APPENDIX: LANGUAGES OF PERKINS' SAMPLE -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

This is a textbook right in the thick of current interest in morphology. It proposes principles to predict properties previously considered arbitrary and brings together the psychological and the diachronic to explain the recurrent properties of morphological systems in terms of the processes that create them. For the student, the clear discussion of morphology and morphophonemics and the rich variety of data brought in on the way to the theoretical conclusion is material for a direct learning experience.

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