Conversion in Morphology Theory and Typology

Laurie Bauer, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington,Salvador Valera, Associate Professor, University of Granada

Laurie Bauer FRSNZ is Emeritus Professor at Victoria University of Wellington. He has published extensively on morphology, particularly on word formation, and in a number of related areas, such as the description of varieties of English, phonetics, phonology, and the recent history of the English. He is the co-author, with Rochelle Lieber and Ingo Plag, of The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology (OUP, 2013), which won the Leonard Bloomfield Award in 2015.

Salvador Valera is Associate Professor at the University of Granada. His research focuses primarily on morphology, especially on conversion and related areas of lexical semantics, and also on syntax. His work has been published in leading journals, and in edited volumes published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, de Gruyter, John Benjamins, and Routledge.

1. Conversion: The core issues, Laurie Bauer and Salvador ValeraPart I. Theoretical issues2. The analysis of conversion: Historiography, Antonio Fábregas3. Word classes, John Mansfield4. Conversion and inflection, Anna M. Thornton5. Conversion and other word-formation processes, Alexandra Soares Rodrigues6. The position of conversion in word-formation, Gianina Iordachioaia7. Conversion and coercion, Bozena Cetnarowska8. The semantics of conversion, Heike Baeskow9. Conversion and figurative language, Réka Benczes and Lilla Petronella Szabó10. Directionality, Gergana PopovaPart II. Description and typology11. Japonic: Japanese, Akiko Nagano12. Indo-European: Germanic and Romance, Livio Gaeta13. Indo-European: Slavic and Baltic, Magda Ševcíková and Jurgis Pakerys14. Austronesian: Tagalog and Indonesian, Daniel Kaufman, Nathan Adamson, Victoria Chen, Bradley McDonnell, and Olivia Waring15. Tupian: Guaraní, Wolf Dietrich16. Dene: Upper Tanana, Olga Lovick17. Sino-Tibetan: Chinese (Mandarin/Cantonese), Giorgio Francesco Arcodia18. Uralic: Hungarian, László Palágyi19. Semitic: Hebrew, Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald20. Dravidian: Telugu, Pingali Sailaja21. Basque, Xabier ArtiagoitiaConclusion and retrospective, Laurie Bauer