Table of contents:
- Preface
- A. Introduction
- I. Introduction
- 1. What is naturalness?
- 2. Inflection and word formation
- 3. Towards a theory of morphological naturalness
- 4. The structure of a theory of naturalness
- 5. Evidence for naturalness
- 6. The semiotic framework of natural morphology
- 7. Divergences and convergences among proponents of natural approaches to morphology
- Notes
- B. Naturalness in Inflection
- I. System-independent morphological naturalness
- 0. Introduction
- 1. Universal grammar and markedness
- 2. Preference theories
- 3. Some other prerequisites of theoretical morphology
- 4. Principles of morphological markedness theory
- 5. What is a 6;theory'?
- 6. Appendix on attractors in catastrophe theory
- Notes
- II. System-dependent morphological naturalness in inflection
- 0. Naturalness, morphology and language system
- 1. System-dependent naturalness I
- 2. System-dependent naturalness II
- 3. System-congruity and class-stability
- 4. Naturalness principles of inflectional morphology
- Notes
- C. Naturalness in Word Formation
- I. Word formation as part of natural morphology
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Iconicity in word formation
- 3. Indexicality in word formation
- 4. The scale of (bi)uniqueness in word formation
- 5. Signans shapes adequate for motivation in word formation
- 6. Typological adequacy of word formation rules
- 7. System adequacy (congruity) of word formation rules
- 8. Inflection vs. derivation again
- Notes
- II. Productivity and diachronic change in morphology
- 0. Introduction
- 1. Interpretations of productivity
- 2. Vedic root-nouns and Ancient Greek diminutives
- 3. Semantic predictability (transparency)
- 4. Transition from word formation into inflection
- 5. Hierarchy of productivity in types of word formation
- 6. Conclusion on productivity in corpus languages
- 7. From derivational to inflectional morphology
- 8. Reasons for loss of productivity
- 9. Indo-European cognates
- Notes
- Abbreviations
- General bibliography
- Subject index
- Preface
- A. Introduction
- I. Introduction
- 1. What is naturalness?
- 2. Inflection and word formation
- 3. Towards a theory of morphological naturalness
- 4. The structure of a theory of naturalness
- 5. Evidence for naturalness
- 6. The semiotic framework of natural morphology
- 7. Divergences and convergences among proponents of natural approaches to morphology
- Notes
- B. Naturalness in Inflection
- I. System-independent morphological naturalness
- 0. Introduction
- 1. Universal grammar and markedness
- 2. Preference theories
- 3. Some other prerequisites of theoretical morphology
- 4. Principles of morphological markedness theory
- 5. What is a 6;theory'?
- 6. Appendix on attractors in catastrophe theory
- Notes
- II. System-dependent morphological naturalness in inflection
- 0. Naturalness, morphology and language system
- 1. System-dependent naturalness I
- 2. System-dependent naturalness II
- 3. System-congruity and class-stability
- 4. Naturalness principles of inflectional morphology
- Notes
- C. Naturalness in Word Formation
- I. Word formation as part of natural morphology
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Iconicity in word formation
- 3. Indexicality in word formation
- 4. The scale of (bi)uniqueness in word formation
- 5. Signans shapes adequate for motivation in word formation
- 6. Typological adequacy of word formation rules
- 7. System adequacy (congruity) of word formation rules
- 8. Inflection vs. derivation again
- Notes
- II. Productivity and diachronic change in morphology
- 0. Introduction
- 1. Interpretations of productivity
- 2. Vedic root-nouns and Ancient Greek diminutives
- 3. Semantic predictability (transparency)
- 4. Transition from word formation into inflection
- 5. Hierarchy of productivity in types of word formation
- 6. Conclusion on productivity in corpus languages
- 7. From derivational to inflectional morphology
- 8. Reasons for loss of productivity
- 9. Indo-European cognates
- Notes
- Abbreviations
- General bibliography
- Subject index