Peter Arkadiev is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Assistant Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities. His research interests include language typology and areal linguistics, morphology, case and alignment systems, tense and aspect, and Baltic and Northwest Caucasian languages. He is the co-editor of Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics (with Axel Holvoet and Björn Wiemer) and Borrowed Morphology (with Francesco Gardani and Nino Amiridze), both published by De Gruyter in 2015Francesco Gardani is Professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Zürich. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Romance Linguistics.

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• 1: Peter Arkadiev and Francesco Gardani: Introduction: Complexities in morphology Part I: The language-specific perspective 2: Jeff Parker and Andrea D. Sims: Irregularity, paradigmatic layers, and the complexity of inflection class systems: A study of Russian nouns 3: John Mansfield and Rachel Nordlinger: Demorphologization and deepening complexity in Murrinhpatha 4: Felicity Meakins and Sasha Wilmoth: Overabundance resulting from language contact: Complex cell-mates in Gurindji Kriol 5: Fabiola Henri, Gregory Stump, and Delphine Tribout: Derivation and the morphological complexity of three French-based creoles 6: Michele Loporcaro: Simplification and complexification in Wolof noun morphology and morphosyntax Part II: The crosslinguistic perspective 7: Johanna Nichols: Canonical complexity 8: Francesca Di Garbo: The complexity of grammatical gender and language ecology 9: Adam J. R. Tallman and Patience Epps: Morphological complexity, autonomy, and areality in western Amazonia Part III: The acquisitional perspective 10: John H. McWhorter: Radical analyticity as a diagnostic of adult acquisition 11: Aleksandrs Berdicevskis and Arturs Semenuks: Different trajectories of morphological overspecification and irregularity under imperfect language learning 12: Marianne Mithun: Where is morphological complexity? 13: Östen Dahl: Morphological complexity and the minimum description length approach

Peter Arkadiev is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Assistant Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities. His research interests include language typology and areal linguistics, morphology, case and alignment systems, tense and aspect, and Baltic and Northwest Caucasian languages. He is the co-editor of Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics (with Axel Holvoet and Björn Wiemer) and Borrowed Morphology (with Francesco Gardani and Nino Amiridze), both published by De Gruyter in 2015Francesco Gardani is Professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Zürich. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Romance Linguistics.

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• 1: Peter Arkadiev and Francesco Gardani: Introduction: Complexities in morphology Part I: The language-specific perspective 2: Jeff Parker and Andrea D. Sims: Irregularity, paradigmatic layers, and the complexity of inflection class systems: A study of Russian nouns 3: John Mansfield and Rachel Nordlinger: Demorphologization and deepening complexity in Murrinhpatha 4: Felicity Meakins and Sasha Wilmoth: Overabundance resulting from language contact: Complex cell-mates in Gurindji Kriol 5: Fabiola Henri, Gregory Stump, and Delphine Tribout: Derivation and the morphological complexity of three French-based creoles 6: Michele Loporcaro: Simplification and complexification in Wolof noun morphology and morphosyntax Part II: The crosslinguistic perspective 7: Johanna Nichols: Canonical complexity 8: Francesca Di Garbo: The complexity of grammatical gender and language ecology 9: Adam J. R. Tallman and Patience Epps: Morphological complexity, autonomy, and areality in western Amazonia Part III: The acquisitional perspective 10: John H. McWhorter: Radical analyticity as a diagnostic of adult acquisition 11: Aleksandrs Berdicevskis and Arturs Semenuks: Different trajectories of morphological overspecification and irregularity under imperfect language learning 12: Marianne Mithun: Where is morphological complexity? 13: Östen Dahl: Morphological complexity and the minimum description length approach

Peter Arkadiev is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Assistant Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities. His research interests include language typology and areal linguistics, morphology, case and alignment systems, tense and aspect, and Baltic and Northwest Caucasian languages. He is the co-editor of Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics (with Axel Holvoet and Björn Wiemer) and Borrowed Morphology (with Francesco Gardani and Nino Amiridze), both published by De Gruyter in 2015Francesco Gardani is Professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Zürich. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Romance Linguistics.

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• 1: Peter Arkadiev and Francesco Gardani: Introduction: Complexities in morphology Part I: The language-specific perspective 2: Jeff Parker and Andrea D. Sims: Irregularity, paradigmatic layers, and the complexity of inflection class systems: A study of Russian nouns 3: John Mansfield and Rachel Nordlinger: Demorphologization and deepening complexity in Murrinhpatha 4: Felicity Meakins and Sasha Wilmoth: Overabundance resulting from language contact: Complex cell-mates in Gurindji Kriol 5: Fabiola Henri, Gregory Stump, and Delphine Tribout: Derivation and the morphological complexity of three French-based creoles 6: Michele Loporcaro: Simplification and complexification in Wolof noun morphology and morphosyntax Part II: The crosslinguistic perspective 7: Johanna Nichols: Canonical complexity 8: Francesca Di Garbo: The complexity of grammatical gender and language ecology 9: Adam J. R. Tallman and Patience Epps: Morphological complexity, autonomy, and areality in western Amazonia Part III: The acquisitional perspective 10: John H. McWhorter: Radical analyticity as a diagnostic of adult acquisition 11: Aleksandrs Berdicevskis and Arturs Semenuks: Different trajectories of morphological overspecification and irregularity under imperfect language learning 12: Marianne Mithun: Where is morphological complexity? 13: Östen Dahl: Morphological complexity and the minimum description length approach