Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Inferential-realizational morphology -- 1.1 Theories of in inflectional morphology -- 1.2 Evidence favouring realizational theories over incremental theories -- 1.3 Minimizing unmotivated theoretical distinctions in inflectional morphology -- 1.4 The interface between syntax and inflectional morphology -- 1.5 On certain properties that make some affixes SEEM like syntactic objects -- 1.5.1 The preference for affixal inflection -- 1.5.2 The featural coherence of affix position classes -- 1.5.3 Cross-linguistic regularities in the sequencing of inflectional affixes -- 1.6 Conclusion -- 2 Paradigm functions -- 2.1 Paradigm Function Morphology -- 2.2 Bulgarian verb inflection -- 2.3 Morphosyntactic properties -- 2.4 Paradigms and paradigm functions -- 2.5 Realization rules and rule blocks -- 2.6 Morphophonological rules and morphological metageneralizations -- 2.7 Defining a language's paradigm function in terms of its realization rules -- 2.8 Summary and prospect -- 3 Rule competition -- 3.1 Two approaches to resolving rule competition -- 3.2 Evidence from Potawatomi -- 3.3 Evidence from Georgian -- 3.4 Two modes of application for realization rules -- 3.5 The Paninian approach is more restrictive than the rule-ordering approach -- 3.6 Generalizing over expansion schemata -- 3.6.1 A second look at Potawatomi verb agreement -- 3.6.2 A second look at Georgian verb agreement -- 3.7 Expansion metarules are not always reducible to argument hierarchies -- Appendix: Analysis of a fragment of Potawatomi verb morphology -- 4 Headedness -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Headed morphological expressions -- 4.3 Four generalizations about head marking -- 4.3.1 Not all headed roots exhibit head marking.

4.3.2 Head marking vs. the percolation of purely morphological properties -- 4.3.3 The uniformity of head marking among coderivatives -- 4.3.4 The uniformity of head marking within an inflectional paradigm -- 4.3.5 The implications of the CUG and the PUG for the learnability of inflectional morphology -- 4.4 The Head Operation Hypothesis -- 4.5 Head marking in PFM -- 4.6 Some apparent counterexamples to the PUG -- 4.6.1 Conjunct forms -- 4.6.2 A formal approach to absolute/conjunct alternations in PFM -- 4.6.3 Promiscuous inflections -- 4.6.4 Spurious heads -- 4.7 The problem of word-to-stem derivatives -- 4.8 Conclusions -- 5 Rule blocks -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Portmanteau rule blocks -- 5.3 Parallel rule blocks -- 5.4 Reversible rule blocks -- 5.5 Rule blocks or feature discharge? -- 5.6 Conclusions -- 6 Stem alternations -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Stem-selection rules and morphological metageneralizations -- 6.2.1 Paradigmatic and syntagmatic determinants of stem choice -- 6.2.2 Stem choice by means of stem-selection rules -- 6.2.3 Stem choice by means of morphological metageneralizations -- 6.3 Stem formation and stem indexing -- 6.3.1 Stem-formation rules -- 6.3.2 Vowel gradation in Sanskrit declensional stems -- 6.3.3 The incongruence of vowel grade distinctions with indexing distinctions -- 6.3.4 The Indexing Autonomy Hypothesis -- 6.3.5 Against a prosodic approach to stem choice -- 6.4 Summary of the proposed theory of stem alternations -- 6.5 Some applications of the theory -- 6.5.1 Stems without morphomic indices -- 6.5.2 On the inflection of word-to-stem derivatives -- 6.5.3 Portmanteau stem-selection rules -- 7 Syncretism -- 7.1 Four types of syncretism -- 7.2 Rules of referral -- 7.3 Symmetrical syncretisms -- 7.4 Rule interactions involving rules of referral -- 7.5 Syncretism across paradigms.

7.6 Restrictions on the incidence of syncretism -- 8 Conclusions, extensions, and alternatives -- 8.1 A synopsis of PFM -- 8.2 Beyond inflection -- 8.2.1 Morphosemantic mismatches -- 8.2.2 Derivational paradigms -- 8.3 Alternatives -- 8.3.1 An informal exemplification of Network Morphology -- 8.3.2 PFM and Network Morphology -- Notes -- 1 Inferential-realizational morphology -- 2 Paradigm functions -- 3 Rule competition -- 4 Headedness -- 5 Rule blocks -- 6 Stem alternations -- 7 Syncretism -- 8 Conclusions, extensions, and alternatives -- References -- Index.