Universals in comparative morphology : suppletion, superlatives, and the structure of words / Jonathan David Bobaljik.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-300) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Distributed Morphology -- 1.3. Constructing the Database -- 1.4. Comparative Typology -- 2. Comparative Suppletion -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. ABA: Explaining a Gap -- 2.3. Universal Grammar versus the European Sprachbund -- 2.4. Summary -- 3. Containment Hypothesis -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Transparent Containment -- 3.3. Comparison and the Synthetic/Analytic Divide -- 3.4. Synthetic Superlative Generalization -- 3.5. Containment and Semantic Considerations -- 3.6. Chapter Summary -- 4. Comparative-Superlative Generalization: The Data -- 4.1. Adjectives -- 4.2. Adverbs -- 4.3. Quantifiers -- 4.4. Chapter Summary -- 5. Theoretical Refinements -- 5.1. Introduction: Taking Stock -- 5.2. Conditions on Suppletion: Exponence versus Readjustment -- 5.3. Adjacency, ABC, AAB -- 5.4. AAB Ablaut -- 5.5. Merger, Rule Ordering, Diacritics, and Acquisition -- 6. Getting Better: Comparison and Deadjectival Verbs -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Preliminary Remarks -- 6.3. Deadjectival Degree Achievements: Doubting Dowty -- 6.4. To Good, to Badden, and to Many -- 6.5. Summary: What's the Difference? -- 7. Complexity, Bundling, and Lesslessness -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Lesslessness -- 7.3. Conservative Decomposition: Adjacency and Bundling -- 7.4. Concluding Remarks -- Appendixes -- A. Broad Sample -- B. Focused Survey -- C. Principal Sources.