Explorations in Nominal Inflection is a collection of new articles that focus on nominal inflection markers in different languages. The studies are concerned with the morphological inventories of markers, their syntactic distribution, and, importantly, the interaction between the two. As a result, the contributions shed new light on the morphology/syntax interface, and on the role of morpho-syntactic features in mediating between the two components. Issues that feature prominently throughout are inflection class, case, gender, number, animacy, syncretism, iconicity, agreement, the status of paradigms, the nature of morpho-syntactic features, and the structure of nominal projections. Recurrent analytical tools involve the concepts of competition (optimality, specificity), underspecification, and economy, in various theoretical frameworks.James P. Blevins: Inflection Classes and EconomyBernd Wiese: Categories and Paradigms. On Underspecification in Russian Declension

The volume assembles studies on the morphology and syntax of reflexive verbs from a variety of theoretical perspectives (including minimalism and optimality theory), with reference to a number of languages, and focusing on different syntactic domains (clause, NP, AcI). As such, it presents a cross section of present-day research on the field in question.

In addition to the canonical expression of the argument structure of verbs in the form of intransitive or transitive constructions with noun or prepositional phrases, arguments can also be structured in diverse ways in complex non-canonical form. Such argument structures show interesting variations, especially in comparative linguistics, as this volume illustrates based on studies of German, Romanian, and English.