Table of Contents

Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1: Ana R. Luis and Ricardo Bermudez-Otero: Introduction Part I: Morphomic or not? Diagnosing morphomicity 2: Mark Aronoff: Unnatural kinds 3: Martin Maiden: Some lessons from history: Morphomes in diachrony 4: Greville G. Corbett: Morphomic splits 5: Andrew Koontz-Garboden: Thoughts on diagnosing morphomicity: A case study from Ulwa 6: Donca Steriade: The morphome vs. similarity-based syncretism: Latin t-stem derivatives Part II: Autonomous or not? Analysing morphomic patterns 7: Gregory Stump: Morphomic categories and the realization of morphosyntactic properties 8: Andrew Spencer: Stems, the morphome, and meaning-bearing inflection 9: Erich R. Round: Kayardild inflectional morphotactics is morphomic 10: Paolo Acquaviva: Morphomic stem extension and the German n-declension 11: David Embick: On the distribution of stem alternants: Separation and its limits Retrospect and prospect 12: Ricardo Bermudez-Otero and Ana R. Luis: A view of the morphome debate References Index

About the Author

Ana R. Luis is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra. The central focus of her research has been Portuguese inflectional morphology and cliticization, with a special interest in the morphology of Portuguese contact varieties. She has published both as author and co-author on the morphology-syntax interaction, Portuguese inflectional morphology, the morphology of creole languages, and cliticization.; Ricardo Bermudez-Otero is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on the morphosyntax-phonology and phonology-phonetics interfaces, with particular attention to diachronic issues. He works predominantly on English and on Romance. His general approach to morphology is outlined in 'The architecture of grammar and the division of labour in exponence', in Trommer (ed.), The Morphology and Phonology of Exponence (OUP 2012).