Morphology, and in particular word formation, has always played an important role in Romance linguistics since it was introduced in Diez's comparative Romance g

This is the first volume specifically dedicated to competition in inflection and word-formation, a topic that has increasingly attracted attention. Semantic cat

The focus of Paradigms in Word Formation: Theory and applications is on the relevance of paradigms for linguistic description. Paradigmatic organization has tra

Fills a gap in cross-linguistic research by being the first systematic survey of the word-formation of the world's languages. Data from fifty-five world languag

This volume includes a selection of papers that address a wide range of acquisition phenomena from different Romance languages and all share a common theoretica