The Boundaries of Pure Morphology

Silvio Cruschina is Research Assistant in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester. He has recently published Discourse-Related Features and Functional Perspectives in the OUP series Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax. Martin Maiden has been Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Trinity College Oxford since 1996, and a Fellow of the British Academy since 2003.John Charles Smith has been Faculty Lecturer in French Linguistics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford, since 1997.Martin Maiden and John Charles Smith are co-editors with Maria Goldbach, and Marc-Olivier Hinzelin of Morphological Autonomy: Perspectives from Romance Inflectional Morphology (OUP 2011).

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Stem Alternations in Swiss Rumantsch ; 3. 'Semi-autonomous' Morphology? A Problem in the History of the Italian (and Romanian) Verb ; 4. The Italian FINIRE Type Verbs: A case of morphomic attraction ; 5. The Fate of the -ID(I)- Morpheme in the Central Dolomitic Ladin Varieties of Northern Italy: Variable conditioning of a morphological mechanism ; 6. Future and Conditional in Occitan: A non-canonical morphome? ; 7. Compositionality and Change in Conditionals and Counterfactuals in Romance ; 8. Morphomes in Sardinian Verb Inflection ; 9. The Roots of Language ; 10. Morphomic Stems in the Northern Talyshi Verb: Diachrony and synchrony ; 11. Overabundance in Diachrony: A case study ; 12. The Morphome and Morphosyntactic/Semantic Features ; 13. The Morphome as a Gradient Phenomenon: Evidence from Romance ; 14. Beyond the Stem and Inflectional Morphology: An irregular pattern at the level of periphrasis ; References ; Index