This volume sets out four different default-based frameworks for describing morphology. Major proponents of these frameworks address a range of questions about the role of defaults in the lexicon, such as the place of morphology in the grammar and the challenge of meaning-form dissociations that plagues morphology.

• Acknowledgements


• List of abbreviations


• List of contributors


• 1: Nikolas Gisborne and Andrew Hippisley: Defaults in linguistics


• 2: Geert Booij: Inheritance and motivation in Construction Morphology


• 3: Alain Kihm: Old French declension: A Word and Paradigm approach and the role of syncretism and defaults in its rise and fall


• 4: Dunstan Brown: Inflectional classes and containment


• 5: Andrew Hippisley: Default inheritance and the canonical: Derivation as sign builder and sign connector


• 6: Richard Hudson: French pronouns in cognition


• 7: Nikolas Gisborne: Defaulting to the new Romance synthetic future


• 8: Bertholdt Crysmann: Inferential-realizational morphology without rule blocks: An information-based approach


• 9: Robert Malouf: Defaults and lexical prototypes


• 10: Farrell Ackerman and Olivier Bonami: Systemic polyfunctionality and morphology-syntax interdependencies


• 11: Stephen R. Anderson: Defaults and morphological structure


• References


• Index

Nikolas Gisborne is Professor of Linguistics and Head of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh. His main interests are in event structure and its relationship to morphosyntax, the lexicon, and language change. His book The Event Structure of Perception Verbs was published by OUP in 2010. He is the co-editor, with Willem Hollmann, of Theory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics (Benjamins 2014).
Andrew Hippisley is Chair of the Linguistics Department at the University of Kentucky, having previously worked a research fellow in the Surrey Morphology Group. He is the author, with Dunstan Brown, of Network Morphology (CUP 2012) and co-editor of Deponency and Morphological Mismatches (with Matthew Baerman, Greville G. Corbett, and Dunstan Brown; OUP 2007) and of The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology (with Gregory Stump; CUP 2016).