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.
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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.
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Emeritus Professor of LinguisticsEmeritus Professor of Linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington
Associate ProfessorAssociate Professor, University of Granada
