Morphological Length and Prosodically Defective Morphemes

Eva Zimmermann is a Research Associate at Leipzig University as part of a German Research Foundation funded project on 'Featural Affixes: The Morphology of Phonological Features'. Her research principally examines non-concatenative morphology and its analysis in phonological theory, particularly in Native American languages, as well as verbal agreement morphology in Kiranti and Broader Algic. Her work has appeared in Lingua, Phonology, and edited volumes from OUP and Wiley-Blackwell.

The theory presented in this book deserves to become influential because it provides the most comprehensive and constrained theoretical account of subtractive morphology ... In terms of the analysis of additive prosodically defective morphemes, it is probably the most complete work on the subject, with the most extensive evidence.

• 1: Introduction 2: The theory of Prosodically Defective Morphemes 3: Subtractive MLM and Prosodically Defective Morphemes 4: Prosodically Defective Morphemes and blocking 5: Morpheme contiguity 6: The complete empirical picture of MLM and the linearization of morphemes 7: A critical review of alternative accounts 8: Conclusion References Index