Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter I: The transformationalist treatment of word formation -- 1. The lexicon: from marginal to central -- 1.1. Syntactic Structures -- 1.2. The Standard Theory -- 2. Word formation as transformations -- 2.1. The sentence as the source of compounds -- 2.2. Deletion of lexical material -- 2.3. Variability in the meaning of compounds -- 2.4. Absolute exceptions -- 3. Summary -- Chapter II: Lexicalist morphology -- 1. The Lexicalist Hypothesis (Chomsky 1970) -- 1.1. Consequences for derivation -- 1.2. Word stress rules -- 2. Prolegomena to a theory of word formation (Halle 1973) -- 2.1. The model -- 2.2. Relevance of Halle's theory -- 2.3. Some criticisms of Halle's model -- 3. Summary -- Chapter III: Word formation in generative morphology -- 1. Morphemes and words -- 1.1. The Word Based Hypothesis -- 1.2. Goals of a morphological theory -- 2. Word Formation Rules -- 3. Restrictions on Word Formation Rules -- 3.1. The base -- 3.2. The output -- 4. Summary -- Chapter IV: Readjustment rules -- 1. Readjustment Rules -- 1.1. Truncation Rules -- 1.2. Allomorphy Rules -- 2. Justification of Readjustment Rules -- 2.1. Readjustment Rules and Word Formation Rules -- 2.2. Readjustment Rules and Phonological Rules -- 3. Summary -- Chapter V: Lexical formatives and word formation rules -- 1. Words and stems -- 1.1. Learned stems -- 2. Representation -- 2.1. External Boundaries -- 2.2. Formatives of the lexical component -- 2.3. Class I and Class II Affixes -- 3. Compounding -- 3.1. The Variable R Condition -- 3.2. The "IS A" Condition -- 3.3. Boundaries in compounds and the Extended Level Ordering Hypothesis -- 4. Well formedness conditions -- 5. Summary -- Chapter VI: Interplay between morphological rules -- 1. Strong Lexicalist Hypothesis -- 2. Derivation and Inflection -- 3. Compounding and Derivation.

3.1. The Extended Ordering Hypothesis in English -- 3.2. The Extended Ordering Hypothesis in Italian -- 4. Compounding and Inflection -- 5. Some bordeline cases -- 5.1. The Past Participle -- 5.2. Evaluative Suffixes -- 6. Summary -- Chapter VII: Constraining word formation rules -- 1. The Unitary Base Hypothesis -- 1.1. The Modified Unitary Base Hypothesis -- 1.2. N, V, A + suffix -- 1.3. N, V + ata -- 1.4. N, V + ino -- 1.5. One suffix or two? -- 2. The Binary Branching Hypothesis -- 2.1. Parasynthetics -- 2.2. The suffix -istico -- 3. The Ordering Hypothesis -- 4. The No Phrase Constraint -- 5. Blocking -- 5.1. Productivity -- 5.2. Blocking and the Blocking Rule -- 6. Summary -- Chapter VIII: Morphology and syntax -- 1. Word Formation Rules and Transformations -- 1.1. Locality -- 1.2. Subcategorization Frames -- 2. Clitics -- 3. Interaction between Morphology and Syntax -- 3.1. Word Bar Theory -- 3.2. Inflection -- 4. Summary and conclusions -- Symbols and Abbreviations -- Subject Index -- Affix Index -- Word Index -- Index of Names -- Bibliography.