Review of the book: M. Baerman (ed.). The Oxford handbook of inflection. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015

Abstract

Recent\tyears\thave\twitnessed\ta\tsteady\tstream\tof\tlinguistics\thandbooks.\tThe\t688-page\tvolume\tunder\treview\tis\tpart\tof\ta\tlarge\tseries\tpublished\tby\tOxford\tUniversity\tPress\tinvolving\thandbooks\ton\tparticular\ttheories\t(e.g.\tConstruction\tGrammar),\tsubfields\t(e.g.\tsociolinguistics),\tand\tlinguistic\tphenomena\t(e.g.\tcompounding\tand\tderivational\tmorphology).\tM.\tBaerman’s\tvolume\tis\ta\tvery\tvaluable\taddition\tto\tthe\tseries;\twith\tits\ttwenty-four\tinformative\tchapters\twritten\tby\tan\timpressive\trange\tof\tauthorities\tin\tthe\tfield,\tthe\thandbook\tis\tlikely\tto\tbecome\tan\timportant\tresource\tfor\tyears\tto\tcome\t–\tboth\tfor\texperts\tand\tfor\tnewcomers\tto\tinflectional\tmorphology.