MORPHOLOGY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- PREFACE -- Table of contents -- PART I: MORPHOLOGY AND MORPHO-PHONEMICS -- CHAPTER I: TOWARD EXPLANATION IN MORPHOLOGY -- 1. Morphological fusion -- 2. Allomorphy -- 3. Grammatical meaning -- CHAPTER 2: SEMANTIC DETERMINANTS OF INFLECTIONAL EXPRESSION -- 1. Lexical, inflectional and syntactic expression. -- 2. Determinants of inflectional expression -- 2.1. Relevance -- 2.2. Generality -- 3. Inflectional categories -- 4. Cross-linguistic survey -- 5. The distribution of verbal categories -- 6. The order of morphemes -- 7. Degree of fusion with the stem -- 8. Explaining the correlations -- 9. Morphology and word order -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3: THE ORGANIZATION OF PARADIGMS -- 1. The basic-derived relation -- 2. Degree of relatedness -- 3. Experimental evidence -- 4. Velar subjunctives -- 5. Local markedness -- 6. Summary -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 4: THE LEXICAL / DERIVATIONAL / INFLECTIONAL CONTINUUM -- 1. Distinguishing derivation from inflection -- 1.1. Relevance and two types of derivational morphology -- 1.2. Lexical generality -- 1.3. Causes of lack of lexical generality -- 2. Lexical split -- 3. Inflectional split -- 4. Degree of fusion -- 5. The difference between derivational and inflectional meaning -- 5.1. The expression of aspect -- 5.2. Number in verbs -- 6. Compounding and incorporation -- 7. Conclusion -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 5: TWO PRINCIPLES IN A DYNAMIC MODELOF LEXICAL REPRESENTATION -- 1. Rote or combination? -- 2. Lexical representation of regular forms -- 3. Differences between regular and irregular forms -- 4. Lexical strength -- 5. Lexical connection -- 6. Evidence for varying lexical strength -- 7. Evidence for degrees of lexical connection -- 8. The representation of a complex paradigm -- 9. Cross-paradigmatic relations -- 10. Morphological classes -- 11. Productivity.

12. Summary of the proposed model -- 13. Conclusion -- NOTES -- PART II: ASPECT, TENSE AND MOOD INFLECTIONS IN THE LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD -- Introduction to Part II -- CHAPTER 6: ASPECT -- 1. Perfective / imperfective, habitual / continuous -- 2. Formal correlates of generality of meaning -- 3. Perfective / imperfective and the inflectional - derivational scale. -- 4. Markedness values -- 5. Inceptive aspect -- 6. Iterative aspect -- 7. Less usual meanings for "aspects" -- 8. Aspect as a grammatical category -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 7: TENSE -- 1. Present and past -- 2. Future -- 3. Anterior -- 4. Tense as a grammatical category -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 8: MOOD -- 1. Mood and modality -- 2. The functions of mood -- 3. Imperatives and related moods -- 4. Interrogatives -- 5. Negatives -- 6. Potential, dubitative and related functions -- 7. Evidentials -- 8. Emphatics -- 9. Subjunctives and conditionals -- 10. Conclusion -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 9: ASPECT, TENSE AND MOOD AS GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES -- 1. MOOD as a cross-linguistic grammatical category -- 2. The ordering of aspect, tense and mood markers -- 3. Factors determining the development of verbal inflection -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 10: CONCLUSION -- 1. The interaction of rules and rote processing -- 2. Diachronic mechanisms -- NOTES -- APPENDIX: LANGUAGES OF PERKINS' SAMPLE -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.