Dressler Wolfgang U., Pfeiffer Oskar E., Pöchtrager Markus, Rennison John R. (Editors). Morphological Analysis in Comparison

John Benjamins, 2000. — ix, 253 pages. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 201). ISBN: 90-272-3708-5 / 1 55619 979 1.The Seventh International Morphology Meeting was held in Vienna, Austria, from the 16th to the 18th of February 1996 and consisted of a main section and several workshops. It continued the series of biennial meetings held alternately in Austria and Hungary. The proceedings of the third and fifth meetings (both held in Krems, Lower Austria) had been published under the titles of “Contemporary Morphology” and “Advances in Morphology” with the publishing house Mouton de Gruyter.This volume presents selected papers from the main section of this meeting (plus one contribution from the workshop on the acquisition of morphology). They deal with questions of morphological analysis in many fields. The comparative aspect comes through contrasts between compounding and derivation, derivation and inflection, the gradual emergence of morphology in language acquisition, and via the cross-linguistic spread of the investigations. They cover such areas as the morphology-syntax interface, agreement, the distinction or transition between derivation and inflection, straight derivation (suffixation and prefixation), composition, and the acquisition of morphology.An optimality theoretic account for “Ergative Displacement” in Basque
Salish evidence on the causative-inchoative alternation
Prefixation and the head-complement parameter
Catalan verbal compounds: Internal order and argument interpretation
Are fillers as precursors of morphemes relevant for morphological theory? A case story from the acquisition of French
Productivity as a sign of category change: The case of Hungarian verbal prefixes
Are Affixes Signs?: The semantic relationships of English derivational affixes
Athabaskan redux: Against the position class as a morphological category
Agentive nouns in Dogon: Neither derivation nor inflection?
Agreement morphology in Chukotkan
Three models of the morphology-syntax interface