The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology

The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology is intended as a companion volume to The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (OUP 2009) Written by distinguished scholars, its 41 chapters aim to provide a comprehensive and thorough overview of the study of derivational morphology.

The handbook begins with an overview and a consideration of definitional matters, distinguishing derivation from inflection on the one hand and compounding on the other. From a formal perspective, the handbook treats affixation (prefixation, suffixation, infixation, circumfixation, etc.), conversion, reduplication, root and pattern and other templatic processes, as well as prosodic and subtractive means of forming new words. From a semantic perspective, it looks at the processes that form various types of adjectives, adverbs, nouns, and verbs, as well as evaluatives and the rarer processes that form function words. The book also surveys derivation in fifteen language families that are widely dispersed in terms of both geographical location and typological characteristics.

Rochelle Lieber is Professor of Linguistics at the University of New Hampshire. Her interests include morphological theory, especially derivation and compounding, lexical semantics, and the morphology-syntax interface. She is the author of several books including Morphology and Lexical Semantics (CUP, 2004), and Introducing Morphology (CUP, 2010). She is the co-author, with Laurie Bauer and Ingo Plag, of the Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology (OUP, 2013).

Pavol Stekauer is Professor of English linguistics at P.J. Safarik University, Koice, Slovakia. His research has focused on an onomasiological approach to word-formation, sociolinguistic aspects of word-formation, meaning predictability of complex words, and crosslinguistic research into word-formation. His publications include An Onomasiological Theory of English Word-Formation (John Benjamins, 1998), English Word-Formation. A History of Research (1960-1995). Gunter Narr, 2000), and Meaning Predictability in Word-Formation (John Benjamins, 2005).

Rochelle Lieber and Pavol Štekauer are co-editors of two handbooks: The Handbook of Word-formation (Springer, 2005) and The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (OUP, 2009).

Part I
1. Introduction: The scope of the handbooks, Rochelle Lieber and Pavol Štekauer
2. Delineating derivation and inflection, Pius ten Hacken
3. Delineating derivation and compounding, Susan Olsen
4. Theoretical approaches to derivation, Rochelle Lieber
5. Productivity, blocking, and lexicalization, Mark Aronoff and Mark Lindsay
6. Methodological issues in studying derivation, Rochelle Lieber
7. Experimental and psycholinguistic approaches, Harald Baayen
8. Concatenative derivation, Laurie Bauer
9. Infixation, Juliette Blevins
10. Conversion, Salvador Valera
11. Non-concatenative derivation: Reduplication, Sharon Inkelas
12. Non-concatenative derivation: Other processes, Stuart Davis and Natsuko Tsujimura
13. Allomorphy, Mary Paster
14. Nominal derivation, Artemis Alexiadou
15. Verbal derivation, Andrew Koontz-Garboden
16. Adjectival and adverbial derivation, Antonio Fabregas
17. Evaluative derivation, Livia Kortvelyessy
18. Derivation and function words, Gregory Stump
19. Homophony versus polysemy in derivation, Franz Rainer
20. Derivational paradigms, Pavol Štekauer
21. Affix ordering in derivation, Pauliina Saarinen and Jennifer Hay
22. Derivation and historical change, Carola Trips
23. Derivation in a social context, Livia Kortvelyessy and Pavol Štekauer
24. Acquisition of derivational morphology, Eve Clark
Part II
25. Indo-European, Sailaja Pingali
26. Uralic, Ferenc Kiefer and Johanna Laakso
27. Altaic, Irina Nikolaeva
28. Yeniseian, Edward J. Vajda
29. Mon-Khmer, Mark J. Alves
30. Austronesian, Robert Blust
31. Niger-Congo, Denis Creissels
32. Afro-Asiatic, Erin Shay
33. Nilo-Saharan, Gerrit Dimmendaal
34. Sino-Tibetan, Karen Steffen Chung, Nathan W. Hill, and Jackson T.-S. Sun
35. Pama-Nyungan, Jane Simpson
36. Athabaskan, Keren Rice
37. Eskimo-Aleut, Alana Johns
38. Uto-Aztecan, Gabriela Caballero
39. Matacoan, Veronica Nercesian
40. Areal tendencies in derivation, Bernd Heine
41. Universals in derivation, Rochelle Lieber and Pavol Štekauer