English suffixes : Stress-assignment properties, productivity, selection and combinatorial processes.

Cover -- Contents -- Symbols and conventions -- Abbreviations -- 0. Introduction -- 0.1 Objectives and methodology -- 0.2 Stress-assignment: a confrontation between two phonologies -- 0.3 Two families of affixes to account for the combinatorial properties of affixes? -- 0.4 Rules vs. constraints -- 0.5 Book structure -- Part I. S-1 and auto-stressed suffixes -- 1. -ic -- 1.1 General features -- 1.2 Suffix combinations -- 1.3 Allomorphic transformations -- 1.4 Extensions of the -ic rule -- 1.5 Summary and conclusion -- 2. -ion and similar affixes -- 2.1 General features -- 2.2 The -ION generalisation -- 2.3 -ion and its allomorphs -ation, -ition, -ution, -fication, -faction -- 3. -ity -- 3.1 General features -- 3.2 Suffix juxtaposition and substitution -- 3.3 -ety -- 3.4 -ty -- 3.5 Underived nouns in -ity -- 3.6 Summary and conclusion -- 4. S-1 suffixes indicative of smaller word populations -- 4.1 -ify -- 4.2 -ible/-igible -- 4.3 -icide -- 4.4 -meter -- 4.5 -erie -- 5. Stress-bearing affixes -- 5.1 Affixes of French origin -- 5.2 Stress-bearing affixes from Latin or Romance languages other than French -- 5.3 Germanic stress-bearing suffixes -- 5.4 Neoclassical affixes and combining forms -- Part II. Neutral suffixes -- 6. Grammatical suffixes -- 7. Consonant-initial suffixes -- 7.1 General features -- 7.2 Consonant-initial suffixes of Latinate stock in Present-Day English -- 7.3 Consonant-initial suffixes of Germanic stock -- 7.4 Consonant-initial suffixes of Germanic stock still productive in Present-Day English -- 7.5 Suffixes extracted from foreign words -- 7.6 Neoclassical combining forms -- 7.7 Summary and conclusion -- 8. Neutral vowel-initial suffixes of Germanic stock or of uncertain origins -- 8.1 Unproductive forms -- 8.2 Productive forms -- 9. -er -- 9.1 General features -- 9.2 Productivity in compounds.

9.3 Productivity in non-compound lexemes -- 9.4 Nouns in -er with an obscure or opaque stem -- 9.5 Suffix stacking -- 10. Latinate vowel-initial suffixes: -er's rival agent noun suffixes -- 10.1 -ant/-ent -- 10.2 -ator and -or -- 10.3 -ist -- 10.4 -ite -- 10.5 Unproductive person or instrument suffixes -- 10.6 Summary and conclusion -- 11. Latinate Vowel initial noun suffixes of action, state, process and result -- 11.1 -acy -- 11.2 -age -- 11.3 -al -- 11.4 -ance/-ancy, -ence/-ency -- 11.5 -ate -- 11.6 -ery -- 11.7 -ule -- 11.8 -ure -- 11.9 -Mixed suffixes -- Part III. Mixed suffixes -- 12.  -able -- 12.1 General features -- 12.2 -able or -ible? -- 12.3 Stress-neutrality and variation -- 12.4 Suffix stacking -- 13. Verb suffixes -- 13.1 -ate -- 13.2 -ise -- 14. -y and -ism -- 14.1 -y -- 14.2 -ism -- Part IV. S-1/2 suffixes -- 15. Adjective suffixes -- 15.1 #Syl + -al, -an, etc. -- 15.2 -ION adjective affixes -- 15.3 Consonant clusters + adjective affixes -al, -ous, etc. -- 15.4 Vowel digraphs + -al, -an, etc. -- 15.5 -ul- + adjective affixes -ar, -an, -ous, etc. -- 15.6 -VCal/-an/-ous, etc. -- 15.7 -ative, -atory, -utive, -utory -- 15.8 Suffix stacking -- 16. Neoclassical suffixes -- 16.1 General features and stress assignment -- 16.2 Productive suffixes -- 16.3 Exceptions to truncation of neoclassical endings -- 17. Stress-assignment and suffix stacking, overall recapitulation -- 17.1 Stress-assignement -- 17.2 Suffix stacking -- Part V. Further issues -- 18. Compounds -- 18.1 Combining-form compounds -- 18.2 Standard compounds -- 19. Conversion -- 19.1 Noun-verb and verb-noun conversion -- 19.2 Adjective-noun and noun-adjective conversion -- 19.3 Adjective/verb conversion -- 19.4 Verb-adjective conversion -- 20. Secondary stress -- 20.1 General principles -- 20.2 The condensation/information dichotomy -- References -- General conclusion.