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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Morphology: Definitions and Basic Concepts | |
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| What Is Morphology? | |
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| Its Object of Study | |
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| Morphology's Place in Grammar | |
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| Differences between the Lexicon and Morphology | |
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| Classes of Morphemes | |
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| Classes of Affixes | |
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| Subdivisions of Morphology | |
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| Inflection | |
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| Word Formation: Derivation and Compounding | |
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| The Spell-Out of Morphemes | |
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| Allomorphy | |
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| Productivity | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Morphological Units | |
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| Morphemes | |
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| Words | |
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| The Debate on the Existence of Morphemes | |
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| Replacive and Substractive Morphology | |
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| Mismatches between Grammatical Features and their Exponents | |
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| Cranberry Morphemes | |
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| Priscianic Word Formation | |
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| Paradigmatic Motivation of Meaning | |
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| Other Units | |
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| Roots and Stems | |
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| Constructions | |
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| Templates | |
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| Correlations between Morphemes and Morphs and Morphological Typology | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Morphological Structures | |
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| The Motivation for Morphological Structures | |
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| Evidence in Favour of Word-Internal Structure | |
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| The Properties of Morphological Structures | |
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| The Concept of Head | |
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| The Position of the Head | |
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| Binary Branching | |
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| Arguments against Morphological Structures | |
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| A-Morphous Morphology | |
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| Exocentricity | |
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| Bracketing Paradoxes | |
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| Double Base | |
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| Parasynthesis | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Inflectional Processes | |
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| Properties of Inflection | |
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| Inflection and Grammatical Categories | |
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| A Comparison of Five Languages | |
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| Non-Inflected Categories: Prepositions, Conjunctions and Adverbs | |
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| Desinences and Theme Vowels in Grammar | |
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| The Status of Gender and the Notion of Desinence | |
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| Theme Vowels | |
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| Paradigms | |
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| Syncretism | |
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| Defectiveness | |
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| Suppletion | |
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| Patterns of Irregularity | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Derivational Processes | |
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| Properties of Derivation | |
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| Category Changes | |
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| Nominalizations | |
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| Verbalizations | |
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| Adjectivalizations | |
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| Semantic Changes | |
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| Category Change without Formal Marking: Conversion | |
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| Argument Structure Changes | |
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| Lexical Alternations | |
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| Questions Raised by the Analysis of Derivational Processes in a Single Language | |
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| The Boundaries between Inflection and Derivation | |
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| Appreciative Morphology | |
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| Hybrid Categories | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Compounding and Other Word-Formation Processes | |
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| Properties of Compounds | |
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| Basic Classes of Compounds | |
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| Classes According to the Relation Established between the Two Elements | |
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| Synthetic Compounds | |
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| Parasynthetic Compounds | |
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| Co-Compounds | |
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| Compounding between Syntax and Morphology | |
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| Some Diiferences between Compounds and Phrases | |
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| Intermediate Cases | |
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| Compounds and Grammatical Categories: Japanese and English | |
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| Other Word-Formation Processes | |
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| Clipping | |
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| Reduplication | |
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| Acronymy | |
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| Blending | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Morphology's Relation to Syntax | |
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| The Place of Morphology in Grammar: Lexicalism and Constructionism | |
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| Lexicalist Theories | |
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| Constructionism | |
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| The Generalized Lexicalist Hypothesis: Empirical Data | |
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| Syntactic Material inside Words: The No Phrase Constraint | |
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| Non-Morphological Processes and the Internal Structure of Words | |
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| Absence of Movement and the Theory of Syntactic Domains | |
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| Absence of Coreference to Word-Internal Constituents | |
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| The Relation between Syntax and Morphology in Diachrony: Morphologization | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Morphology's Relation to Phonology and Semantics | |
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| Restrictions Imposed by Phonology on Morphology | |
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| The Phonological Materialization of Morphemes | |
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| Morphology and Phonology Feed Each Other: Lexical Strata | |
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| Morphology Is Independent from Phonology: The Separation Hypothesis | |
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| Morphology Precedes Phonology: The Late Insertion Hypothesis | |
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| Post-Syntactic Morphological Operations in Distributed Morphology | |
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| Accounting for Allomorphs: Localism and Globalism | |
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| The Linearization of Morphological Structure: Morpheme Order | |
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| Syntactic Accounts | |
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| Semantic Accounts | |
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| Purely Morphological Accounts | |
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| Phonological Accounts | |
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| Parsing-Based Accounts | |
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| The Meaning of Words and Affixes | |
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| The Meaning of Units Is Decomposable | |
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| Semantic Atomicity | |
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| Do Affixes Have a Meaning of their Own? | |
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| Compositionality and Semantic Unpredictability | |
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| The Unpredictability of Meaning | |
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| Dividing Structures and Concepts: Two Types of Meaning | |
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| How to Represent Demotivation | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Answers to the Exercises | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |