Selected Publications

Aronoff, Mark. 2023. Terrify and Terrific. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics 20(1). 2-15.

Aronoff, Mark & Andrea D. Sims. 2023. The relational nature of morphology. Linguistic morphology in the mind and brain, 7–25. New York: Routledge.

Sandler, Wendy, Carol Padden & Mark Aronoff. 2022. Emerging sign languages. Languages 7(4): 284.

Aronoff, Mark. 2023. Three ways of looking at morphological rivalry. Word Structure 16(1). 49–62.

Cépeda, Paola, et al. 2023. ‘Language in the United States’: An innovative learner-centered, asynchronous general-education course in linguistics. Language 99(2). e86–e107. 

Berg, Kristian & Mark Aronoff. 2021. Introduction to the special issue: Morphological spelling. Morphology 31(3). 239–241.

Berg, Kristian & Mark Aronoff. 2021. Is the English writing system phonographic or lexical/morphological? A new look at the spelling of stems. Morphology 31. 315–328.

Berg, Kristian & Mark Aronoff. 2021. Introduction to the special issue: Morphological spelling. Morphology 31(3). 239–241.

Treiman, Rebecca, Rachael Jewell, Kristian Berg & Mark Aronoff. 2021. Word Class and Spelling in English. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 47(6). 1027–1035.

Ulicheva, Anastasia, Hannah Harvey, Mark Aronoff & Kathleen Rastle. 2020. Skilled readers’ sensitivity to meaningful regularities in English writing. Cognition 195. 

Aronoff, Mark. 2020. -less and-free. In Geert Booij & Joachim Mugdan (eds.), Complex words: Advances in morphology, 55–64. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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

Aronoff, Mark. 2019. Canonical Syncretism and Chomsky’s S. Morphological perspectives. 138–147.

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, Kristian Berg & Vera Heyer. 2016. Some implications of English spelling for morphological processing. The Mental Lexicon 11(2). 164–185.

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. 

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.

Aronoff, Mark. 2012. Sub Specie Evolutionis: Four Books on the Evolution of Language. Evolutionary Anthropology 21. 289–292.

Meir, Irit, Assaf Israel, Wendy Sandler, Carol A. Padden & Mark Aronoff. 2012. The influence of community on language structure: Evidence from two young sign languages. Linguistic Variation 12(2). 247–291.

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

Xu, Zheng & Mark Aronoff. 2011. A Realization Optimality-Theoretic Approach to Full and Partial Identity of Forms. In Martin Maiden et al. (eds.), Morphological autonomy: Perspectives from Romance Inflectional Morphology, 257–286. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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 & Kirsten Fudeman. 2011. What is Morphology? 2nd edn. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

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

Aronoff, Mark & Stela Manova. 2010. Introduction: Theory, description, and analysis in affix order. Morphology 20. 297–298. 

Lindsay, Mark & Mark Aronoff. 2010. The emergence of self-organization in language: Evidence from English word formation. In The evolution of language, 441–442.

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, Mark Aronoff, Irit Meir & Wendy Sandler. 2010. In search of grammar. Paper presented at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference, Purdue University.

Padden, Carol, Irit Meir, Mark Aronoff & Wendy Sandler. 2010. The grammar of space in two new sign languages. In Diane Brentari (ed.), Sign languages, 570–592. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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

Aronoff, Mark. 2009. Morphology – An interview with Mark Aronoff. ReVel 7(12).

• Aronoff, Mark. 2009. Morfologia – Una entrevista con Mark Aronoff. ReVel 7(12).

Aronoff, Mark, Mario Volp. 2006. Morpheme. In Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of language and linguistics. 2nd edn. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 274-276.

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 Constructions and Morphology in Two Sign Languages. 2003. In Karen Emmorey, Ed., Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum. 53-84.

Aronoff, Mark. 2002. Comments on Frawley. Computational Intelligence 18(1).

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.

Aronoff, Mark. 2000. Generative grammar. In Geert Booij, Christian Lehmann & Joachim Mugdan (eds.), Morphologie/Morphology. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Flexion und Wortbildung/An international handbook on inflection and word-formation, vol. 1, 194–209. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Aronoff, Mark. 2000. Morphology between lexicon and grammar. In Geert Booij, Christian Lehmann & Joachim Mugdan (eds.), Morphologie/Morphology. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Flexion und Wortbildung/An international handbook on inflection and word-formation, vol. 1, 344–349. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

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. 1997. Gender agreement as morphology. Proceedings of the First Mediterranean Conference on Morphology, 7-18.

Aronoff, Mark. 1999. Le Système Malgré lui. In Fonologia e morfologia dell’italiano e dei dialetti d’Italia: Atti del 31. Congresso della Società di linguistica italiana, Padova, 25–27 settembre 1997 (Pubblicazioni della Società di linguistica italiana 41), 24-25. Rome: Bulzoni. 

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 & Frank Anshen. 2001. Morphology and the lexicon: Lexicalization and productivity. In Andrew Spencer & Arnold M. Zwicky (eds.), The handbook of morphology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

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. Morphology by itself: Stems and Inflectional classes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 

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.

Kaufman, Dorit & Mark Aronoff. 1991. Morphological disintegration and reconstruction in first language attrition. In Herbert W. Seliger & Robert Michael Vago (eds.), First language attrition, 175–188. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

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

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. 1991. Prefixation in Kannada. In B. Lakshmi Bai & B. Ramakrishna Reddy (eds.), Studies in Dravidian and general linguistics: A festschrift for Bh. Krishnamurti, 98–111.

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 Linguists 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. Sign language morphology, typology, and universal grammar, or how to ride a bicycle. Main Theme: Variation and Change in Morphology. 5. 

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. 1976. Word formation in generative grammar. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 

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

Aronoff, Mark. 1974. Word-structure. PhD dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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. 

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

Review of The Oxford handbook of compounding, by Rochelle Lieber & Pavol Štekauer. Language 87(3). 643–646. (2011).

Review of Introducing Morphology by Rochelle Lieber. Word Structure 6.2. 226-229. (2010).

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

Review of Space between words: The origins of silent reading, by Paul Saenger. Language in Society 31(4). (2002).

Review of American automobile names, by Ingrid Piller. Language 74(3). 658. (1998). 

Review of Literacy and language analysis, ed. by Robert J. Scholes. Language 70(3). 619. (1994).

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

Review of Morphology and mind: A unified approach to explanation in linguistics, by Christopher J. Hall. Journal of Linguistics 29(1). 200–203. (1993).

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

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

Review of The phonology-Morphology Interface: Cycles, levels and words, by Jolanta Szpyra. Studies in Language 14(2). 503–510. (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).

Review of The Indo-European lexicon: A full synchronic theory, by Robert Beard. Language 59(2). 439. (1983).