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.
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 Iordăchioaia: The position of conversion in word-formation 7: Bożena 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 Ševčíková and Jurgis Pakerys: Indo-European: Slavic and Baltic 14: Daniel Kaufman, Nathan 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 (Mandarin/Cantonese) 18: László Palágyi: Uralic: Hungarian 19: Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald: Semitic: Hebrew 20: Pingali Sailaja: Dravidian: Telugu 21: Xabier Artiagoitia: Basque Laurie Bauer: Conclusion and 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.
