Selected Publications

Ulicheva, Anna, Hanna Harvey, Mark Aronoff, and Kathy Rastle. 2019. Skilled readers' sensitivity to meaningful regularities in English Spelling. Cognition.

Aronoff, Mark. 2019.  Competitors and alternants in linguistic morphology.  In Franz Rainer, Francesco Gardani, Wolfgang Dressler, & Hans Christian Luschützky, Eds. Competition in inflection and word formation. Berlin: Springer (in press)

Aronoff, Mark. 2018. Morphology and words: a memoir. In Fiammetta Namer and Olivier Bonami, Eds. The Lexeme in Descriptive and Theoretical Morphology. Berlin: Language Sciences Press. 3-20

Berg, Kristian, and Mark Aronoff. 2018. Further evidence for self-organization in English spelling. Language 94. online.

Meir, Irit, et al. 2017. The effect of being human and the basis of grammatical word order: Insights from novel communication systems and young sign languages. Cognition 158. 189-207.

Aronoff, Mark. 2017. Darwinism tested by the science of language. In On looking into language: structures, relations, analyses, ed. by Claire Bowern, Laurence Horn, and Raffaella Zanuttini. 443-455.

Aronoff, Mark. 2017. English verbs in Syntactic Structures. In Syntactic Structures after 60 Years: The Impact of the Chomskyan Revolution in Linguistics. Norbert Hornstein and Charles Yang, eds.

Berg, Kristian, and Mark Aronoff. 2017. Self-organization in the spelling of English suffixes. Language 93. 1-28.

Aronoff, Mark. 2016. A fox knows many things but a hedgehog one big thing. The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology. Edited by Andrew Hippisley and Greg Stump. Cambridge: CUP. 186-205.

Aronoff, Mark. 2016. Competition and the lexicon. In Livelli di Analisi e fenomeni di interfaccia. Atti del XLVII congresso internazionale della società di linguistica Italiana. Ed. by Annibale Elia, Claudio Iacobini, and Miriam Voghera. Roma: Bulzoni Editore. 39-52.

Aronoff, Mark. Unnatural Kinds. 2016. In The Morphome Debate, ed. by Ana Luis and Carlos Bermudez-Otero. 11-32. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Aronoff, Mark. 2015. Thoughts on morphological and cultural evolution. In Laurie Bauer et al, eds. Semantics of Complex Words. Springer International. 277-288.

Aronoff, Mark, and Mark Lindsay. 2014. Partial organization in languages: la langue est un système où la plupart se tient.Proceedings of Décembrettes 8. Edited by Sandra Augendre, Graziella Couasnon-Torlois, Déborah Lebon, Clément Michard, Gilles Boyé, and Fabio Montermini. Rapport Interne No. 22 de CLLE-ERSS. pp. 1-14.

Aronoff, Mark. 2014. Face the facts. In Foisonnements morphologiques: études en hommage à Françoise Kerleroux. Ed. by Florence Villoing and Sophie David. Paris: PUPO. 307-324. [DIFFERENT LINK]

Sandler, Wendy, Mark Aronoff, Carol Padden, and Irit Meir. 2014. Language emergence: Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language. In The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology, ed. by N. J. Enfield, Paul Kockelman, and Jack Sidnell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 246-278.

Aronoff, Mark, and Mark Lindsay. 2014. Productivity, blocking, and lexicalization. In The Handbook of Derivational Morphology, ed. by Shelley Lieber and Pavol Štekauer. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Aronoff, Mark. 2013. Varieties of Morphological Defaults and Exceptions. ReVEL 7.

Lindsay, Mark, and Mark Aronoff. 2013. Natural Selection in Self-Organizing Morphological Systems. In Morphology in Toulouse: Selected Proceedings of Décembrettes 7, ed. by Fabio Montermini, Gilles Boyé, and Jesse Tseng. Germany: Lincom Europa. 133 - 153.

Aronoff, Mark. 2013. The Roots of Language. In The Boundaries of Pure Morphology, Ed. by Silvio Cruschina, Martin Maiden, and John Charles Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 161-180.

Meir, Irit, Assaf Israel, Wendy Sandler, Carol Padden, and Mark Aronoff. 2013. Community structure and language structure. Linguistic variation 12. 247-291.

Aronoff, Mark. Varieties of morphological defaults and exceptions. ReVEL 7.

Competing iconicities in the structure of languages. 2013. Cognitive Linguistics 24. 309-343.

Aronoff, Mark. 2012. Morphological stems: what William of Ockham really said. Word Structure 5. 28-51.

Xu, Zheng, and Mark Aronoff. 2011. A Realization Optimality Theory approach to blocking and extended morphological exponence. Journal of Linguistics 47. 673 707.

The emergence of complexity in prosody and syntax. 2011. Lingua. 121. 2014-2033.

The gradual emergence of phonological form in a new language. 2011. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 29. 503 – 543, with Wendy Sandler, Irit Meir, and Carol Padden.

Aronoff, Mark, and Carol Padden. 2010. Sign language verb agreement and the ontology of morphosyntactic categories. Theoretical Linguistics 37. 143 – 151.

Manova, Stela, and Mark Aronoff. 2010. Modeling Affix Order. Morphology 20. 109-131.

Meir, Irit, Mark Aronoff, Wendy Sandler, and Carol Padden. 2010. Sign languages and compounding. In Sergio Scalise and Irene Vogel, Eds. Compounding. John Benjamins. 301-322.

Meir, Irit, Wendy Sandler, Carol Padden, and Mark Aronoff. 2010. Emerging sign languages. In M. Marschark and P. Spencer, Eds. Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies, Language, and Education, Volume 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 267-280.

Padden, Carol, Irit Meir, Wendy Sandler, and Mark Aronoff. 2010. Against all expectations. In Donna Gerdts and John Moore, Eds. Hypothesis A/ Hypothesis B: Linguistic explorations in honor of David M. Perlmutter. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 383-400.

Padden, Carol, Irit Meir, Mark Aronoff, and Wendy Sandler. 2010. The grammar of space in two new sign languages. In D. Brentari, Ed. Sign Languages: A Cambridge Survey. New York: Cambridge University Press. 573-595. [DIFFERENT LINK]

Xu, Zheng, and Mark Aronoff. 2010. A realization Optimality-Theoretic approach to affix order. 2010. Morphology 20. 381-411.

The Roots of Linguistic Organization in a New Language. 2008. In Michael Arbib and Derek Bickerton (eds.), Holophrasis, Compositionality, and Protolanguage (Interaction Studies 9.1), 133-153.

Xu, Zheng , Mark Aronoff, and Frank Anshen. 2007. Deponency in Latin. In Matthew Baerman, Greville G. Corbett, Dunstan Brown, and Andrew Hippisley (eds.), Deponency and Morphological Mismathces. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Meir, Irit, Carol Padden, Wendy Sandler, and Mark Aronoff. 2007. Rethinking sign language verb classes: the body as subject. Journal of Linguistics 43, 531-563.

Aronoff, Mark. 2007. In the Beginning was the Word. Language 83. 803-830.

Aronoff, Mark. 2007. Language: between words and grammar. In Jarema, G. & Libben, G., Eds. The Mental Lexicon: Core Perspectives. Elsevier. 6-24.

Sandler, Wendy, Mark Aronoff, and Irit Meir. 2005. The Paradox of Sign Language Morphology. 2005. Language 81.301-344.

Sandler, Wendy, Carol Padden, Irit Meir, and Mark Aronoff. 2005. The emergence of grammar: Systematic structure in a new language. 2005. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102.7. 2662-2665.

Aronoff, Mark, Carol Padden, Irit Meir, and Wendy Sandler.2004. Morphological universals and the sign language type. Yearbook of Morphology 19-39.

Aronoff, Mark, and Robert Hoberman. 2003. The verbal morphology of Maltese: from Semitic to Romance. In Language Processing and Acquisition in Languages of Semitic, Root-based, Morphology, ed. by Joseph Shimron. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 61-78.

Aronoff, Mark, Irit Meir, Carol Padden, and Wendy Sandler. Classifier complexes and morphology in two sign languages. 2003. In Karen Emmorey, Ed., Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum. 53-84.

Fuhrhop, Nanna, and Mark Aronoff. 2002. Restricting Suffix Combinations in German and English. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20, 451-490.

Aronoff, Mark, and Sungeon Cho. 2001. The Semantics of -ship,” Linguistic Inquiry 32.167-173.

Aronoff, Mark. 2001. Autonomous morphology: the waste remains. Proceedings of CLS 37, vol. 2, The Autonomy of Morphology, 323-338.

Anshen, Frank, and Mark Aronoff. 1999. Using Dictionaries to Study the Mental Lexicon. 1999. Brain and Language 68. 16-26.

Aronoff, Mark. 1999. Indirect mapping in inflectional morphology. Atti del XXXI Congresso della Società di Linguistica Italiana, 321-332.

Aronoff, Mark. 1999. Gender agreement as morphology. Proceedings of the First Mediterranean Conference on Morphology, 7-18.

Aronoff, Mark. 1998. isomorphism and monotonicity: Or the disease model of morphology. In Steven Lapointe, Diane K. Brentari, and Patrick Farrell, Eds., Morphology and its Relation to Syntax and Phonology.  Stanford: CSLI. 411-417.

Aronoff, Mark. 1998. Morphology and the lexicon: lexicalization and productivity. In Andrew Spencer and Arnold M. Zwicky, eds. The Handbook of Morphology. Oxford: Blackwell. 237-47.

Anshen, Frank, and Mark Aronoff. 1996. Morphology in real time. Yearbook of Morphology. 9-12.

Aronoff, Mark, and Eric Koch. 1996. Context-sensitive regularities in English vowel spelling. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal 8. 251-65.

Aronoff, Mark. 1994. Spelling as culture. In W. Watt, Ed. Writing Systems and Cognition, 67-86. Amsterdam: Kluwer.Aronoff, Mark. 1992. Noun classes in Arapesh. Yearbook of Morphology 4: 21-32.

Aronoff, Mark. 1992. Stems in Latin verbal morphology. In M. Aronoff, Ed. Morphology Now. Albany: SUNY Press, 5-32.

Aronoff, Mark. 1992. Segmentalism in linguistics: the alphabetic basis of phonological theory. In P. Downing, S. Lima and M. Noonan, Eds. The Linguistics of Literacy. Academic Press. 71-82.

Aronoff, Mark. 1992. Noun classes in Arapesh. Yearbook of Morphology 4: 21-32.

Anshen, Frank, and Mark Aronoff. 1988. Producing Morphologically Complex Words. Linguistics 26. 641-655.

Dorit Kaufman, and Mark Aronoff. Morphological disintegration and reconstruction in first language attrition. In H. Seliger and R. Vago, Eds. First Language Attrition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 175-188.

Dorit Kaufman, and Mark Aronoff. Morphological interaction between L1 and L2 in language attrition. In S. Gass, C. Madden, D. Preston, L. Selinker, Eds. Variation in Second Language Acquisition: Psycholinguistic Issues. Multilingual Matters. 202-215.

Anshen, Frank and Mark Aronoff. 1989. morphological productivity, word frequency and The Oxford English Dictionary. In R. W. Fasold and D. Schiffrin, Eds. Language Change and Variation, 197‑202, John Benjamins.

Aronoff, Mark. 1988. The orthographic system of an early English printer. Folia Linguistica Historica 8: 65-97.

Aronoff, Mark. 1988. Two Senses of Lexical. ESCOL 1988, 1-11.

Aronoff, Mark, and S. N. Sridhar. 1988. Prefixation in Kannada. In M. Hammond and M. Noonan, Eds. Theoretical Morphology. Academic Press. 179-191.

Aronoff, Mark. 1988. Head operations and strata in reduplication: a linear treatment. Yearbook of Morphology 1. 1-15.

Aronoff, Mark, Azhar Arsyad, Hasan Basri and Ellen Broselow. 1987. Tier configuration in Makassarese reduplication. Papers from the Parasession on Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology, CLS 23, 1-15.

Aronoff, Mark, Frank Anshen, Roy J. Byrd and Judith Klavans. 1986. The Role of etymology and word length in English word formation. Advances in Lexicology 17-28.

Aronoff, Mark. Roy J. Byrd, Judith L. Klavans and Frank Anshen. 1986. Computer methods for morphological analysis. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 120-127.

Aronoff, Mark. 1985. Orthography and Linguistic Theory. Language 61. 28-72.

Aronoff, Mark, and S. N. Sridhar. 1984. Agglutination and composition in Kannada verb morphology. In Papers from the Parasession on Lexical Semantics, CLS 20, 3-20.

Aronoff, Mark. 1984. Word formation and lexical semantics. Quaderni di Semantica 5: 43-47.

Aronoff, Mark, and S. N. Sridhar. 1983. Morphological levels in English and Kannada. In E. Gussman, Ed. Rules and the Lexicon, 10-22, Lublin, also in Papers from the Parasession on the Interplay of Phonology, Morphology and Syntax, CLS 19, 3‑16.

Aronoff, Mark. 1983. A Decade of Morphology and Word Formation. Annual Review of Anthropology 12: 355-375.

Aronoff, Mark. 1983. Actual words, potential words, productivity and frequency. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Congress of Linguist 163-171.

Anshen, Frank, and Mark Aronoff. 1982. Dragonfly: Lexical Change, Local Scatter, and the National Norm.  Language in Society 11: 413-417.

Aronoff, Mark, and Frank Anshen. 1981. Morphological productivity and phonological transparency. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 26: 63‑72.

Aronoff, Mark. 1981. Automobile semantics. Linguistic Inquiry 12.329-47.

Aronoff, Mark. 1980. Contextuals. Language 56. 744-58.

Aronoff, Mark. 1980. The treatment of juncture in American linguistics. In Aronoff and Kean, Eds. 29-36.

Aronoff, Mark. 1980. The relevance of productivity in a synchronic description of word formation. In J. Fisiak, Ed. Historical Morphology, 71-82. The Hague: Mouton.

Aronoff, Mark. 1979. The Morphology of Store Names. American Speech 54: 155-6.

Aronoff, Mark. 1979. A reply to Moody. Glossa 13: 115-18.

Aronoff, Mark. 1978. An English spelling convention. Linguistic Inquiry 9.299-303.

Aronoff, Mark, and Roger Schvaneveldt. 1978. Testing morphological productivity. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 3318. 106-14.

Aronoff, Mark. Lexical representations. 1978. Proceedings of the Special Session on the Lexicon. Chicago Linguistic Society, 12-25.

Aronoff, Mark. 1975. -able. Proceedings of The Northeast Linguistics Society 5: 183-91.

Aronoff, Mark. 1974. The Semantics of growth. Quarterly Progress Report of the Research Laboratory of Electronics 113: 159-62. M.I.T.

Aronoff, Mark. 1972. Allomorphy and ION. This was the first serious bit of linguistics I ever did and forms a foundation for all my work on morphology.Please forgive the typos. I typed it myself, badly and laboriously, before the advent of word processors. [DIFFERENT LINK]

Aronoff, Mark. 1971. Studies in Analogical Pseudosyntax 1.1: The complex nature of English lexical categories.

Review of Introducing Morphology by Rochelle Lieber. Word Structure 6.2. 226-229.

Review of Meier, Cormier, and Quinto-Pozos. Language 81.742-745. (2005)

Review of Parkes, Pause and Effect, Language 70: 852-6 (1994).

Review of Corbett, Gender, Language 68: 605-610 (1992).

Review of Cummings, American English Spelling, Language 65: 591-595 (1989).

Review of DiSciullo and Williams, On the Definition of Word,"Language 64: 766-770 (1988).

Review of Bybee, Morphology, Language 63: 115-129 (1987).