| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The study of word structure | p. 7 |
| How are words composed? | p. 9 |
| The nature of words | p. 17 |
| Why have a morphology at all? | p. 22 |
| Morphology and syntax in K[superscript w]ak[superscript w']ala | p. 23 |
| Morphology vs. syntax in general | p. 37 |
| Morphology vs. phonology | p. 42 |
| Conclusion | p. 47 |
| Is morphology really about morphemes? | p. 48 |
| Classical morphemes | p. 48 |
| Classical problems with morphemes | p. 51 |
| Generalizing the structure of the morpheme | p. 56 |
| Items vs. processes in morphology | p. 59 |
| Word-based vs. morpheme-based morphology | p. 69 |
| Conclusion | p. 71 |
| The interaction of morphology and syntax | p. 73 |
| What is inflection? | p. 74 |
| Morphosyntactic Representations | p. 85 |
| Conclusion | p. 100 |
| The theory of inflection | p. 102 |
| Agreement | p. 103 |
| The assignment of configurational properties | p. 118 |
| Deriving the phonological form of inflected words | p. 122 |
| Conclusion | p. 135 |
| Some complex inflectional systems | p. 136 |
| Georgian Verb agreement | p. 137 |
| Potawatomi inflectional morphology | p. 156 |
| Summary of Potawatomi rules | p. 177 |
| Morphology in the lexicon: derivation | p. 180 |
| The lexicon | p. 180 |
| Derivational rules | p. 184 |
| Productivity and lexicalization | p. 195 |
| Conclusion | p. 197 |
| Clitics are phrasal affixes | p. 198 |
| The nature of clitics | p. 199 |
| The nature of affixes | p. 205 |
| Clitics as phrase-level morphology | p. 210 |
| The formal expression of 'clitic placement' | p. 216 |
| Conclusions | p. 221 |
| The relation of morphology to phonology | p. 224 |
| Boundary elements in phonological theory | p. 227 |
| The interaction of morphology and phonology | p. 249 |
| Conclusion | p. 255 |
| How much structure do words have? | p. 256 |
| Eliminating word-internal structure | p. 256 |
| Possible motivations for word-internal structure | p. 261 |
| Conclusion | p. 290 |
| Composites: words with internal structure | p. 292 |
| Compounds and their structure | p. 294 |
| Generalizing the notion of 'compound' | p. 299 |
| Word-internal structure and theories of the lexicon | p. 305 |
| The notion 'head of a word' | p. 310 |
| Summary and conclusion | p. 318 |
| Morphology and the typology of languages | p. 320 |
| Goals of a morphological typology of languages | p. 320 |
| Sapir's typology of word structure | p. 325 |
| Conclusion | p. 334 |
| Morphological change | p. 336 |
| Morphological change and synchronic morphology | p. 337 |
| The morphologization of phonological rules | p. 339 |
| The morphologization of syntactic structures | p. 346 |
| Analogy, or changes in morphological rules | p. 365 |
| Conclusion | p. 372 |
| Morphology as a computational problem | p. 373 |
| Reasons to study morphology as parsing | p. 373 |
| Approaches to computational morphology | p. 376 |
| Some general problems | p. 387 |
| Alternatives to existing approaches | p. 393 |
| Conclusion | p. 399 |
| References | p. 402 |
| Index | p. 417 |
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