Contents -- General Preface -- The Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Approaching inflectional identity -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 The identification of base of identity and scope of identity effects -- 1.3 Paradigm-based explanations, their pitfalls, and alternatives -- 1.4 Sources of identity effects: Shared morphological features -- 1.5 Sources of identity effects: Asymmetric dependence on a base -- 1.6 Conclusions -- 2 Paradigms (Optimal and otherwise): A case for skepticism -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 OP and morphological relatedness -- 2.3 Stems, bases, and morphemes -- 2.4 Itelmen and the source of noun-verb asymmetries -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3 Clarifying "Blur": Paradigms, defaults, and inflectional classes -- 3.1 Structure of paradigms or organization of inflectional classes -- 3.2 Blurring, contrast, and the information content of affixes -- 3.3 Blurring in the Polish nominal declension -- 3.4 Syncretism, impoverishment, and a Distributed Morphology analysis -- 3.5 Inflectional classes and features -- 4 Paradigm generation and Northern Sámi stems -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The nature of the alternation -- 4.3 The phonological manifestations of Strong and Weak Grade -- 4.4 The nominal paradigm -- 4.5 Derivation -- 4.6 µ in the verbal paradigms -- 4.7 Conclusion -- 5 Class features as probes -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Class features in morphology -- 5.3 Class features in syntax -- 5.4 Proposal -- 5.5 Further issues -- 5.6 Concluding remarks -- 6 On absolute and contextual syncretism: Remarks on the structure of case paradigms and on how to derive them -- 6.1 Case paradigms: Introduction -- 6.2 Case paradigms -- 6.3 Analysis -- 6.4 A model without restrictions and repairs -- 6.5 Conclusions -- Appendix: Case features -- 7 A feature-geometric approach to Amharic verb classes -- 7.1 Introduction.

7.2 The framework: Minimalist Distributed Morphology -- 7.3 Decomposing verb classes -- 7.4 The feature geometry of verb classes -- 7.5 Class syncretism as impoverishment -- 7.6 Discussion and summary -- 8 Russian genitive plurals are impostors -- 8.1 Markedness and allomorphy within Distributed Morphology -- 8.2 The organization of Russian inflection -- 8.3 The genitive plural conundrum -- 8.4 The proposal -- 8.5 Productivity and the wug test -- 8.6 A possible counterexample to gender impoverishment: Paucals -- 8.7 Conclusion -- 9 Inflectional paradigms have bases too: Arguments from Yiddish -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Paradigm leveling in Yiddish nouns: Loss of final devoicing -- 9.3 Analysis of the change using inflectional bases -- 9.4 An OP + positional faithfulness account? -- 9.5 Conclusion -- 10 A pseudo-cyclic effect in Romanian morphophonology -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Inflection dependence in Romanian -- 10.3 The analysis -- 10.4 Inflection-dependence and related beyond K-Palatalization -- 10.5 The layered lexicon -- 10.6 Conclusion -- Language Index -- A -- B -- C -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- P -- R -- S -- T -- Y -- Topic Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.