Yearbook of Morphology 1999

From the reviews: "All of these articles reflect the "cutting edge" of morphological research, making this volume, like its predecessors in the same series, an important acquisition for any linguist or librarian serious about keeping pace with morphological theory." (Edward J. Vajda, LANGUAGE, June 2005)

• Umlaut as signans and signatum: synchronic and diachronic aspects.- What sort of thing is a derivational affix? Diachronic evidence from Romanian and Spanish suffixes.- The development of “junk”. Irregularization strategies of have and say in the Germanic languages.- Paradigm organization and lexical connections in the development of the Italian passato remoto.- On useful darkness: loss and destruction of transparency by linguistic change, borrowing, and word creation.- The representation of prefixed forms in the Italian lexicon: evidence from the distribution of intervocalic [s] and [z] in northern Italian.- On inherent inflection feeding derivation in Polish.- The processing of interfixed German compounds.- Word formation rules in a default inheritance framework: a Network Morphology account of Russian personal nouns.- Stem selection and OT.- Verb classifiers as noun incorporation in Israeli sign language.- Publications received.