This book provides a detailed account of morphological conversion-also known by various other names, including zero-derivation- a process whereby a word is turned into a distinct but semantically and/or grammatically related word without any change of form. Following an introductory chapter that offers an overview of morphological conversion and the main questions of interest, the volume is divided into two parts. In the first, contributors consider a range of issues relating to conversion, such as word classes, inflection, figurative language, and directionality. The chapters in the second part explore specific typological aspects of the process of conversion in a wide range of language families, including Austronesian, Dravidian, Indo-European, and Tupian. The volume offers new perspectives on conversion, moving beyond traditional Anglocentric approaches that have dominated the field to date.
This book provides a detailed account of morphological conversion, a process whereby a word is turned into a distinct but semantically and/or grammatically related word without any change of form. The chapters explore key questions relating to conversion and offer accounts of the process in a range of language families.
1: Laurie Bauer and Salvador Valera: Conversion: The core issues
Part I. Theoretical Issues
2: Antonio Fábregas: The analysis of conversion: Historiography
3: John Mansfield: Word classes
4: Anna M. Thornton: Conversion and inflection
5: Alexandra Soares Rodrigues: Conversion and other word-formation processes
6: Gianina Iord&achioaia: The position of conversion in word-formation
7: Bo:zena Cetnarowska: Conversion and coercion
8: Heike Baeskow: The semantics of conversion
9: Réka Benczes and Lilla Petronella Szabó: Conversion and figurative
language
10: Gergana Popova: Directionality
Part II. Description and Typology
11: Akiko Nagano: Japonic: Japanese
12: Livio Gaeta: Indo-European: Germanic and Romance
13: Magda %Sev%cíková and Jurgis Pakerys: Indo-European: Slavic and Baltic
14: Daniel Kaufman, Nathan W. Adamson, Victoria Chen, Bradley McDonnell, and
Olivia Waring: Austronesian: Tagalog and Indonesian
15: Wolf Dietrich: Tupian: Guaraní
16: Olga Lovick: Dene: Upper Tanana
17: Giorgio Francesco Arcodia: Sino-Tibetan: Chinese
18: László Palágyi: Uralic: Hungarian
19: Ora R. Schwarzwald: Semitic: Hebrew
20: Pingali Sailaja: Dravidian: Telugu
21: Xabier Artiagoitia: Basque
Part III. Conclusions
22: Laurie Bauer: Retrospective
Laurie Bauer FRSNZ is Emeritus Professor at Victoria University of Wellington. He has published extensively on morphology, particularly on word formation, and in a number of related areas, such as the description of varieties of English, phonetics, phonology, and the recent history of the English. He is the co-author, with Rochelle Lieber and Ingo Plag, of The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology (OUP, 2013), which won the Leonard Bloomfield Award in 2015.
Salvador Valera is Associate Professor at the University of Granada. His research focuses primarily on morphology, especially on conversion and related areas of lexical semantics, and also on syntax. His work has been published in leading journals, and in edited volumes published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, de Gruyter, John Benjamins, and Routledge.
