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Acknowledgements x
List of Abbreviations xi
The Contributors xvii

. Introduction: Theory and theories in morphology 

J A  F M

PART I ISSUES IN MORPHOLOGY

. A short history of morphological theory 
S R. A

. Theoretical issues in word formation 

R L

. Theoretical issues in inflection 

G S

PART II MORPHOLOGICAL THEORIES

. Structuralism 
T S

. Early Generative Grammar 

P  H

. Later Generative Grammar and beyond: Lexicalism 

F M

. Distributed Morphology 

D S

. Minimalism in morphological theories 

A F́

. Optimality Theory and Prosodic Morphology 

L J. D
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. Morphology in Lexical-Functional Grammar and

Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar 
R N  L S

. Natural Morphology 

L G

. Word and Paradigm Morphology 

J P. B, F A,
 R M

. Paradigm Function Morphology 

G S

. Network Morphology 

D B

. Word Grammar Morphology 

N G

. Morphology in Cognitive Grammar 

R W. L

. Construction Morphology 

F M  J A

. Relational Morphology in the Parallel Architecture 

R J  J A

. Canonical Typology 

O B

PART III MORPHOLOGICAL THEORY

AND OTHER FIELDS
. Morphological theory and typology 
P A  M K

. Morphological theory and creole languages 

A R. L ı́

. Morphological theory and diachronic change 

M H̈  
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. Morphological theory and synchronic variation 

A R

. Morphological theory and first language acquisition 

E B

. Morphological theory and second language acquisition 

J A  G L

. Morphological theory and psycholinguistics 

C L. G́  T L. S

. Morphological theory and neurolinguistics 

N O. S  R G. V

. Morphological theory and computational linguistics 

V P

. Morphological theory and sign languages 

D J N

References 
Language Index 
Index of Names 
General Index 
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T book has been long in coming. Conceived and begun at a period when both of us had
abundant research time, it accompanied us through a steadily increasing amount of
academic duties and responsibilities. We are grateful to all our authors who have remained
faithful to the endeavour.
We thank the fabulous Oxford University Press staff—especially Julia Steer, Vicki Sunter,
and Karen Morgan—for their help in preparing the volume. They were incredibly support-
ive from day one to the end. A special thank-you goes to the late John Davey, who graciously
welcomed us at Oxford University Press. He was the first to believe in this project, and we are
very sad that we never got to meet in person.
We owe gratitude to the numerous colleagues who kindly agreed to serve as reviewers;
their time and expertise was essential in ensuring the quality of the volume. We also thank
Geert Booij, Ray Jackendoff, and Tom Stewart for advice on individual chapters.
Heartfelt thanks to our personal angels Maurice and Yuri, for listening, encouraging, and
cooking for us while we worked on the volume.
Finally, we would like to thank each other, for still being good friends after completing
this journey.
We wish to dedicate this book to the eminent morphologist Geert Booij. Recently retired,
Geert has been a beacon in the morphological community for over thirty years. To us, he
has meant even more. He has inspired us through all stages of our career. He has been—
and still is—a role model, a mentor, a guide, and a friend.
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Different frameworks have different notational conventions, resulting in variation throughout

the book. For example, ACC (accusative) can appear as Acc, acc, or . Such variation is not
reflected in this list, unless it matters for the interpretation of the abbreviation. The list
includes special meanings of abbreviations used in specific chapters (e.g. A used as subject
of transitive verb in Chapter ).

Abbreviation Meaning
 first person
H dominant hand in a sign
 second person
H nondominant hand in a sign
 third person
A adjective
A subject of transitive verb (Chapter )
a adjectivizer (Chapter )/adjective categorizer (Chapter )
AAT Aachener Aphasie Test
ABL ablative
ABS absolutive
ACC accusative
ADIT additive
ADJ adjective
ADV adverb
Af(f) affix
AGR agreement
AMR allomorphic-morphological rule
ANDAT andative
ANT anterior
APPL applicative
ASL American Sign Language
AUX auxiliary
AVM attribute value matrix
BA Brodmann area
BD Berbice Dutch
BEN benefactive
BRCT Base Reduplicant Correspondence Theory
C consonant (Chapters  and )
C syllable coda (Chapter )
CAT syntactic category
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CAUS causative
CG Cognitive Grammar
Ch Chabacano
CI Conceptual-Intentional
CL noun class
CLG “Course in General Linguistics” (de Saussure)
COCA Corpus of Contemporary American English
COM comitative
CON consonant
COND conditional
CONT connective
CP complementizer phrase
CS computational system
CxG Construction Grammar
CxM Construction Morphology
D determiner (Chapters  and )
DAT dative
DC class marker
DEF definite
DES designative
DET determiner
DI default inheritance
DIR directional
DISC discourse structure
DM Distributed Morphology
DP determiner phrase
DS D-Structure
DTR daughter
DU dual
DYN dynamic
EEG electroencephalography
ELAN Early Left Anterior Negativity
EPP Extended Projection Principle
ERG ergative
ERN Error-Related Negativity
ERP event-related potential
EXCL exclusive
EXHORT exhortative
EZ ezafe
F feminine
F-G final grapheme
F-S final stress
Fg Fongbe
FIN finite
fMRI functional magnetic resonance imaging
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FOC focus
FRUSTR frustrative
FSA Finite State Automaton
FST Finite State Transducer
FUT future
FV final vowel
G/B Government and Binding Theory
GEN genitive
GPSG Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar
GTT Generalized Template Theory
h hapax legomenon
H Haitian (Chapter )
Ha Hawaiʿi Creole
HAB habitual
HBL habilitive
HPSG Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
IA Item-and-Arrangement
IC inflection(al) class
II instantiation inheritance link
IM metaphorical extension link
IND indicative
INDEF indefinite
INF infinitive
INFRN inferential
INS instrumental
IO indirect object
IP Item-and-Process (Chapters , , and )
IP inflection(al) phrase (Chapters , , , )
IP polysemy link
IPFV imperfective
IRR irrealis
IS subpart link
Jm Jamaican
K Kriyol
KP Korlai Indo-Portuguese
Kv Kabuverdianu
L first language
L second language
LAN Left Anterior Negativity
LatPP Latin past participle
LF Logical Form
LFG Lexical-Functional Grammar
LH Lexicalist Hypothesis
LHS left-hand side
LIFG left inferior frontal gyrus
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LMBM Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology

LNK linking element
LOC locative
LP Lexical Phonology
LRM Lexical Relatedness Morphology
M masculine
MCAT morphological category
MDL Minimum Description Length
MDT Morphological Doubling Theory
MEG magneto-encephalography
MF Morphological Structure
MHG Middle High German
MNI Montreal Neurological Institute
MOP Morph Ordering Principle
MOR(PH) morphological structure
MPR Morphological-Phonological Rule
MS Morphological Structure
MTG middle temporal gyrus
MUD morphology under discussion
MWE multi-word expression
N noun
n nominalizer (Chapter )/noun categorizer (Chapter )
N neuter (Chapters , , and )
N syllable nucleus (Chapter )
NARR narrative
ND Neglect Dyslexia
NEG negation
NIRS Near-InfraRed Spectroscopy
NM Natural Morphology
NOM nominative
NP noun phrase
NPST nonpast
NUM number
O syllable onset (Chapter )
O object (contrasting with A, Chapter )
OBJ object
OBL oblique
OED Oxford English Dictionary
OHG Old High German
OT Optimality Theory
P Portuguese (Chapter )
P-S penultimate stress
P&P Principles & Parameters Theory
PA Parallel Architecture
PASS passive/passive semantics (Chapter )
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PC position class
PER(S) person
PERF perfective
PET positron emission tomography
PF Phonological Form (Chapters  and )
PF Paradigm Function (Chapters , , and )
PFM Paradigm Function Morphology
PH Phonological Form (Chapter )
PHON phonology/phonological structure
PIE Proto-Indoeuropean
PL plural
PNC Productive Non-inflectional Concatenation
POSS possessive
PP past participle
Pp Papiamentu
PP prepositional phrase
PR Phonological Rule
PRAG pragmatic structure
PRED predicate
PRES present
PRESPART present participle
PROG progressive
PRS present
PRV preverb
PrWord prosodic word
PSC Paradigm-Structure Condition
PST past
PTCL particle
PTCP participle
PTH Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis
PWd prosodic word
PX possessive suffix
RDP Recoverably Deletable Predicates
RED reduplicant (Chapter )/reduplicative semantics (Chapter )
RFL reflexive
RHR Righthand Head Rule
RHS right-hand side
RM Relational Morphology
RR realization rules
s strong syllable
SBCG Sign-Based Construction Grammar
SBJV subjunctive
SDSP System-Defining Structural Property
Sel selection
SEM semantics
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SG singular
SLI Specific Language Impairment
SM sensorimotor
SMG Standard Modern Greek
SML similative
Sr Early Sranan
SS S-Structure
SSR stem selection rules
SUBJ subject
Suppl suppletion
SYN syntax
TAM tense/aspect/mood
tDCS transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
TERM terminative
TETU the emergence of the unmarked
TMA tense/mood/aspect
TMS transcranial magnetic stimulation
TNS tense
TRANS translative
TSOM Temporal Self-Organizing Map
UBH Unitary Base Hypothesis
UG Universal Grammar
UOH Unitary Output Hypothesis
V verb
v verbalizer (Chapter )/verb categorizer (Chapter )
V vowel (Chapter )
Vce voice
VD vowel deletion
Vel-In velar insertion
VI Vocabulary Item
VOC vocative
VP verb phrase
VT verbal theme
w weak syllable
WFGG “Word Formation in Generative Grammar” (Aronoff)
WFR word formation rule
WG Word Grammar
WP Word and Paradigm
WS Williams syndrome
XCOMP complement clause
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Farrell Ackerman is a Professor of Linguistics at UC San Diego. He has focused on

periphrastic morphosyntax, A Theory of Predicates (with Gert Webelhuth) CSLI/Chicago
, and linking theories, Proto-Properties and Grammatical Encoding (with John Moore)
CSLI/Chicago . He is exploring Pattern-Theoretic models of grammatical organization
from a Developmental Systems perspective, as in Descriptive Typology and Linguistic
Theory (with Irina Nikolaeva) CSLI/Chicago , and quantitative approaches to word-
based morphology.
Stephen R. Anderson is the Dorothy R. Diebold Professor emeritus of Linguistics at Yale
University. His interests include most areas of general linguistics, perhaps especially
morphology (where he is associated with the “A-Morphous” approach to word structure),
as well as the history of linguistics, the place of human language in the biological world
(including its relation to the communication systems of other animals), and the grammars
of a number of languages (including Rumantsch, Georgian, Kwakw’ala, and others).
John Archibald is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Victoria where he
specializes in the study of generative approaches to second language acquisition, particu-
larly second language phonology. His recent research has focused on the interfaces of L
phonology with morphology and syntax. Before moving to Victoria, he spent nineteen
years at the University of Calgary in the Department of Linguistics, and the Language
Research Centre.
Peter Arkadiev holds a PhD in theoretical, typological and comparative linguistics from
the Russian State University for the Humanities. Currently he is Senior Researcher at the
Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Assistant Professor at
the Russian State University for the Humanities. His fields of interest include language
typology and areal linguistics, morphology, case and alignment systems, tense–aspect, and
Baltic and Northwest Caucasian languages.
Jenny Audring is Assistant Professor at the University of Leiden. She specializes in
morphology and has written on grammatical gender, linguistic complexity, Canonical
Typology, and Construction Morphology (frequently in collaboration with Geert Booij).
Together with Ray Jackendoff she is developing an integrated theory of linguistic repre-
sentations and lexical relations. A monograph (Jackendoff and Audring The Texture of the
Lexicon) is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
James P. Blevins is Reader in Morphology and Syntax at Cambridge University and Fellow
in Linguistics at Homerton College. His primary research interests concern the structure,
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learning, and processing of complex inflectional and grammatical systems. He has pub-
lished on a range of syntactic and morphological topics, including a recent monograph on
Word and Paradigm Morphology (Oxford University Press, ).

Elma Blom is Professor at the Department of Special Education at Utrecht University,

where she teaches about language development. Her research and publications are about
language impairment, multilingual development, and the relationship between language
and cognition in both impaired and multilingual children, with a special focus on gram-
matical development. Besides theoretical issues, she works on the improvement of diag-
nostic instruments for multilingual children.

Oliver Bond is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the Surrey Morphology Group, University
of Surrey. His research interests include theoretical morphology and syntax (especially
agreement and case), multivariate approaches to typology, and language documentation
and description, particularly in the languages of Africa and the Himalayas. He is a co-editor
of Archi: Complexities of Agreement in Cross Theoretical Perspective (with Greville
G. Corbett, Marina Chumakina, and Dunstan Brown; Oxford University Press, ).

Dunstan Brown is Professor of Linguistics and Head of the Department of Language and
Linguistic Science at the University of York. His research interests include autonomous
morphology, morphology–syntax interaction, and typology. Much of his work focuses on
understanding morphological complexity through computational modelling. His recent
publications include Understanding and Measuring Morphological Complexity (edited with
Matthew Baerman and Greville Corbett; Oxford University Press, ), and Morphological
Complexity (with Matthew Baerman and Greville Corbett; Cambridge University Press, ).

Laura J. Downing is Professor for African Languages at the University of Gothenburg,

Sweden. Her research specialty is the prosody of (mainly) Bantu languages, including topics
such as tone, prosodic morphology, the syntax–phonology interface, and information
structure. She is the author of numerous articles on these topics, as well as the monographs
Canonical Forms in Prosodic Morphology and (with Al Mtenje) The Phonology of Chichewa.

Antonio Fábregas (PhD in Linguistics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, ) is

currently Full Professor of Hispanic linguistics at the University of Tromsø. His work
deals with what he takes to be the internal syntactic structure of words, including its
implications for semantics and phonology. He is the author of three monographs and more
than one hundred papers and currently is Associate Editor of the Oxford Research
Encyclopedia of Morphology.

Livio Gaeta (PhD , University of Rome ) is Full Professor for German Language and
Linguistics at the Department of Humanistic Studies of the University of Turin. He held
earlier tenured positions in Turin (–), Rome  (–) and Naples “Federico II”
(–). He is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Humboldt
University of Berlin (). His main interests include morphology, language change and
grammaticalization, cognitive linguistics, language contact, and minority languages.
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Christina L. Gagné (PhD , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is currently a

Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada. The aim of her research is to understand
how conceptual knowledge affects the way people use and process language. In particular,
her work focuses on the underlying conceptual structures that are involved in the interpre-
tation of novel phrases and compounds. Her past work has shown that knowledge
about the relations that are used to combine concepts plays an important role in the
creation and comprehension of novel noun phrases as well as in the comprehension of
compound words.
Nikolas Gisborne is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. His main
interests are in the lexicon and the lexicon–syntax interface and language change. He is the
author of The Event Structure of Perception Verbs (Oxford University Press, ) and, with
Andrew Hippisley, the editor of Defaults in Morphological Theory (Oxford University
Press, ).
Pius ten Hacken is a Professor at the Institut für Translationswissenschaft of the Leopold-
Franzens-Universität Innsbruck. His research interests include morphology, terminology,
lexicography, and the philosophy and history of linguistics. He is the author of Defining
Morphology (Olms, ) and of Chomskyan Linguistics and its Competitors (Equinox,
), the editor of The Semantics of Compounding (Cambridge University Press, ),
and co-editor of The Semantics of Word Formation and Lexicalization (Edinburgh Univer-
sity Press, ) and Word Formation and Transparency in Medical English (Cambridge
Scholars Press, ).
Matthias Hüning has been a full Professor of Dutch Linguistics at Freie Universität Berlin
since . He received his PhD from Leiden University in . His research focuses on
comparative/contrastive linguistics and on the structure and the status of Dutch in relation
to other (Germanic) languages. The main emphasis of his work is on word-formation from
a diachronic perspective.
Ray Jackendoff is Seth Merrin Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Tufts University. He
has worked on semantics, syntax, morphology, the evolution of language, music cognition,
social cognition, and consciousness. Among his books are Semantics and Cognition, Founda-
tions of Language, Simpler Syntax (with Peter Culicover), and A User’s Guide to Thought and
Meaning; in press is The Texture of the Lexicon (with Jenny Audring). He has been President
of both the Linguistic Society of America and the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and
was recipient of the  Jean Nicod Prize and the  David Rumelhart Prize.
Marian Klamer is Professor of Austronesian and Papuan Linguistics at Leiden University.
Her main research interest lies in describing and analyzing underdocumented Austrone-
sian and Papuan languages in Eastern Indonesia. Klamer has published (sketch) grammars
of two Austronesian languages (Kambera, ; Alorese, ) and two Papuan languages
(Teiwa, ; Kaera, ), several thematic volumes and over fifty articles on a wide range
of topics, including morphology, typology, language contact, and historical reconstruction
of languages in Indonesia.
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Ronald W. Langacker is retired from the position of Professor of Linguistics at the

University of California, San Diego. For over four decades, his research has aimed at a unified
account of language structure. The resulting descriptive framework, known as Cognitive
Grammar, claims that grammar is inherently meaningful. Based on an independently justified
conceptualist semantics, it is argued that lexicon, morphology, and syntax form a continuum
consisting solely in assemblies of symbolic structures (form–meaning pairings).
Gary Libben is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Brock University. His research focuses
on lexical representation and processing across languages and the development of psycho-
linguistic methodologies for studying language processing across age groups, language
groups, and situational contexts. He co-edits the journal The Mental Lexicon and he is
Director of the Words in the World SSHRC Partnership Project. He was Founding Director
of the Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics at the University of Alberta.
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 many articles and
several books on morphological theory, including most recently English Nouns: The Ecology
of Nominalization (Cambridge University Press, ). She is the Editor-in-Chief of the
Oxford Encyclopedia of Morphology.
Ana R. Luís is Assistant Professor of the English Department at the University of Coimbra
and Senior Researcher at the Linguistics Research Center CELGA-ILTEC. Her research
interests include cliticization, inflection, autonomous morphology, language contact, and
creole morphology. She is co-Editor-in-Chief (with I. Plag and O. Bonami) of the journal
Morphology (Springer), co-author of Clitics (with Andrew Spencer, Cambridge University
Press), co-editor of The Morphome Debate (with R. Bermúdez-Otero, Oxford University
Press), and editor of Rethinking Creole Morphology (special issue of the journal Word
Structure, Edinburgh University Press).
Robert Malouf is a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Asian/
Middle Eastern Languages at San Diego State University. His research focus is on compu-
tational approaches to morphosyntax, and in particular word-based models of inflection.
Prior to joining SDSU in , he was a member of the humanities computing department
at the University of Groningen. He has a PhD in linguistics from Stanford University.
Francesca Masini is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bologna. Her
research and publications revolve around semantics, morphology, and the lexicon, with a
focus on multiword expressions, word classes, lexical typology, and the lexicon–syntax
interface. She works primarily within Construction Grammar and Construction Morphol-
ogy. She is currently Associate Editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Morphology.
Fabio Montermini is a Senior Researcher (directeur de recherche) at the CLLE-ERSS
research unit of the CNRS. He also teaches morphology at the Université de Toulouse
Jean Jaurès (France). He is the author of several publications on morphology, both
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inflectional and derivational. His research interests include morphophonological and

semantic aspects of various languages, including Italian, French, other Romance languages,
and Russian.
Donna Jo Napoli is Professor of Linguistics at Swarthmore College. She investigates all
components of sign language grammars, particularly ASL, and of spoken language gram-
mars, particularly Italian. She is a member of a team that advocates for the language rights
of deaf children. She is part of the project RISE (Reading Involves Shared Experience),
which produces bimodal-bilingual ebooks for parents to share with their deaf children.
Rachel Nordlinger is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Melbourne and a Chief
Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language. Her research
centres around the description and documentation of Australia’s Indigenous languages,
especially Bilinarra, Wambaya, and Murrinhpatha. She has also published widely on
syntactic and morphological theory (especially LFG), and in particular the challenges
posed by the complex grammatical structures of Australian languages.
Vito Pirrelli (PhD ) is Research Director at the CNR Institute for Computational
Linguistics “Antonio Zampolli” in Pisa, and head of the “Physiology of Communication”
laboratory. Co-editor in chief of the journal Lingue e Linguaggio, and former Chair of
NetWordS (the European Science Foundation Research Networking Programme on Word
Structure), his main research interests include computer models of the mental lexicon,
psycho-computational models of morphology acquisition and processing, memory and
serial cognition, theoretical morphology, language disorders, and language teaching.
Angela Ralli is Professor of General Linguistics, Director of the Laboratory of Modern
Greek Dialects of the University of Patras and member of the Academia Europaea. Her
expertise area is theoretical morphology, contact morphology, and dialectal variation. She
has published five books and  peer-reviewed articles, has edited seventeen collective
volumes and has presented her work in many international conferences and universities.
She has been awarded the Canadian Faculty Enrichment Award (), the Stanley Seeger
Research Fellowship (Princeton, ), and the VLAC Research Fellowship (Flemish Royal
Academy, –, ).
Louisa Sadler is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK. Her current
research interests centre on constraint-based syntactic theory (especially LFG), particularly
in relation to the interfaces to morphology and semantics, and the grammatical description
of the Arabic vernaculars, including Maltese.
Niels O. Schiller is Professor of Psycho- and Neurolinguistics at Leiden University. His
research interests include experimental linguistics, psycho- and neurolinguistics, including
multilingualism. His main interest is lexical access and form encoding (morphological,
phonological, and phonetic encoding) in speech production. He employs behavioral,
electrophysiological, and neuroimaging methods to answer his research questions. He
has published more than  peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on a broad variety
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of topics in experimental linguistics. Together with Greig de Zubicaray he is the editor of

the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Neurolinguistics.
Daniel Siddiqi is Associate Professor of Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and English at
Carleton University in Ottawa. His research has primarily focused on metatheoretical
concerns in Distributed Morphology since he graduated from the University of Arizona in
. His other research interests include English morphology, stem allomorphy, productivi-
ty, and word processing. He is an editor of the Routledge Handbook of Syntax, Benjamins’
Morphological Metatheory, and the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of North American
Languages.
Professor Thomas L. Spalding (PhD , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) has
taught at the University of Iowa and the University of Western Ontario and is currently a
Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Alberta. He has also been
Chief Research Scientist for Acumen Research Group. His research interests relate to the
issue of how people combine information in the course of learning, comprehension, and
inference. This overarching interest has led to research on concepts, conceptual combina-
tion, and compound word processing, as well as peripheral interests in spatial cognition,
conceptual development, and consumer loyalty.
Thomas Stewart is Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Comparative
Humanities at the University of Louisville. His research into non-concatenative morpho-
logical phenomena, especially the treatment of initial consonant mutations in Scottish
Gaelic, has fed projects in Celtic linguistics, morphological theory, and contact linguistics
(transfer and attrition). His book Contemporary Morphological Theories: A User’s Guide
was published by Edinburgh University Press.
Gregory Stump is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Kentucky. His
research includes work on the structure of complex inflectional systems, the nature of
inflectional complexity, and the algebra of morphotactics. His research monographs
include Inflectional Morphology: A Theory of Paradigm Structure (), Morphological
Typology: From Word to Paradigm (, co-authored with Raphael A. Finkel), and
Inflectional Paradigms: Content and Form at the Syntax–Morphology Interface (). He
is a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America and is a co-editor of the journal Word
Structure.
Rinus G. Verdonschot (PhD ) is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of
Biomedical and Health Sciences at Hiroshima University. His research includes published
work on a wide range of psycho- and neurolinguistic topics (e.g. speech production,
orthographic script processing, multilingualism) as well as on action-perception coupling
in professional musicians. He is also a co-author of the widely used E-Primer: An Introduc-
tion to Creating Psychological Experiments in E-Prime textbook.