Perspectives on Morphological Organization ― Data and Analyses

This volume contains a selection of recent theoretical studies on the organization of morphological paradigms, and the application of information theory and discriminative learning models to the analysis of morphological systems.

Ferenc Kiefer, D.Sc., MHAS, is Emeritus Professor in the Research Institute for Linguistics (Hungarian Academy of Sciences). He has published several monographs and more than 40 journal articles throughout his career on various topics, primarily morphology, semantics, and pragmatics. He has also been editor-in-chief of a number of important journals and high-impact book series in linguistics.James P. Blevins, Ph.D. (1990), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is Reader in Morphology and Syntax at Cambridge University and Fellow in Linguistics at Homerton College. He has published on a range of morphological topics and his recent work includes a monograph on Word and Paradigm Morphology (Oxford University Press, 2016).Huba Bartos, Ph.D. (2000), Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary, is senior research fellow in the Research Institute for Linguistics (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), and associate professor at Eotvos L. University. His research focus is morphosyntax, the syntax–semantics interface, and the grammar of Mandarin Chinese.Contributors are: James P. Blevins, Melody Dye, Istvan Fekete, Richard Futrell, Ekaterina Georgieva, Varvara Magomedova, Petar Milin, Thomas Pellard, Csaba Pleh, Noura Ramli, Michael Ramscar, Natalia Slioussar, Gregory Stump, Daniel Varga, Geraldine Walther, Masahiro Yamada.