Robert Beard is the Director of the Linguistics Program at Bucknell University.

"Beard tackles an important but long neglected issue in morphological theory: whether there are any general linguistic constraints on the meaning which morphological processes (whether derivational or inflectional) can express, and if so, what the relationship is between possible derivational and possible inflectional meanings. He offers precise answers to these questions, arguing for strong constraints. He also offers an account of the relationship between form and content in affixal morphology from which it emerges as quite natural that there should be widespread mismatches, in contrast to the corresponding relationship for lexical stems." — Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

• Acknowledgments Preface List of Figures List of Tables List of Symbols 1. The Agenda of Morphology 2. The Aristotelean Hypothesis 3. An Outline of Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology 4. The Empty Morpheme Entailment 5. Nominal Inflectional Categories 6. Verbal Inflectional Categories 7. Types of Lexical Derivation 8. Transposition 9. Grammatical and Semantic Functions 10. The Syntax and Morphology of Adpositions 11. Case, Case Marking, and Paradigms 12. The Defective Adjective Hypothesis 13. The Unitary Grammatical Function Hypothesis 14. The Base Rule Theory 15. Bound and Free Grammatical Morphemes 16. LMBM and the Agenda of Morphology Appendix AThe Universal Set of Nominal Grammatical Functions Appendix BProductive Yupik Denominal Verbalizations Appendix CChukchee Denominal Verbalizations Bibliography Author Index Language Index Subject Index