Defaults in Morphological Theory

This volume sets out four different default-based frameworks for describing morphology. Major proponents of these frameworks address a range of questions about the role of defaults in the lexicon, such as the place of morphology in the grammar and the challenge of meaning-form dissociations that plagues morphology.

Nikolas Gisborne is Professor of Linguistics and Head of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh. His main interests are in event structure and its relationship to morphosyntax, the lexicon, and language change. His book The Event Structure of Perception Verbs was published by OUP in 2010. He is the co-editor, with Willem Hollmann, of Theory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics (Benjamins 2014).


Andrew Hippisley is Chair of the Linguistics Department at the University of Kentucky, having previously worked a research fellow in the Surrey Morphology Group. He is the author, with Dunstan Brown, of Network Morphology (CUP 2012) and co-editor of Deponency and Morphological Mismatches (with Matthew Baerman, Greville G. Corbett, and Dunstan Brown; OUP 2007) and of The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology (with Gregory Stump; CUP 2016).