Yearbook of Morphology 2002

A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The Yearbook of Morphology series, published since 1988, has proven to be an eminent support for this upswing of morphological research, since it contains articles on topics which are c

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Yearbook of Morphology Editors:

Geert Booij Jaap van Marle

Consulting Editors:

Stephen Anderson (Yale) Mark Aronoff (Stony Brook, N.Y.) Mark Baker (New Brunswick, N.J.) Laurie Bauer (Wellington) Rudie Botha (Stellenbosch) Joan Bybee (Albuquerque, N.M.) Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy (Christchurch) Greville Corbett (Guildford, U.K.) Wolfgang Dressler (Wien) Martin Haspelmath (Leipzig) Jack Hoeksema (Groningen) Rochelle Lieber (Durham, N.H.) Peter Matthews (Cambridge, U.K.) Franz Rainer (Wien) Sergio Scalise (Bologna) Henk Schultink (Utrecht) Andrew Spencer (Colchester, U.K.)

Editorial address:

Editors, Yearbook of Morphology Faculteit der Letteren, Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands e-mail: [email protected]

YEARBOOK OF MORPHOLOGY 2002 Edited by

GEERT BOOIJ Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

and

JAAP VAN MARLE Open Universiteit Nederland, Heerlen, The Netherlands

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Table of Contents

The morphology of creole languages (guest editor: Ingo Plag) INGO PLAG / Introduction: the morphology of creole languages PETER BAKKER / Pidgin inflectional morphology and its implications for creole morphology CLAIRE LEFEBVRE / The emergence of productive morphology in creole languages: the case of Haitian Creole MARIA BRAUN and INGO PLAG / How transparent is creole morphology? A study of Early Sranan word formation JEFF GOOD / Tonal morphology in a creole: High-tone raising in Saramaccan serial verb constructions

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Truncation SABINE LAPPE / Monosyllabicity in prosodic morphology: the case of truncated personal names in English IGGY ROCA and ELENA FELÍU / Morphology in truncation: the role of the Spanish desinence

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Affix ordering LARRY M. HYMAN / Suffix ordering in Bantu: a morphocentric approach JOCHEN TROMMER / The interaction of morphology and syntax in affix order

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Introduction: The morphology of creole languages INGO PLAG This special section of Yearbook of Morphology 2002 is dedicated to the morphology of a set of languages which are generally believed to have no or very little morphology. The papers presented here1 tell, however, an entirely different story, and one of the aims of this special section is to spread the news that widely-shared and long-cherished beliefs about creole morphology need to be given up or considerably revised. Creole languages hold in store problems for morphological theory that are as intriguing as those we find in other