Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology

Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology Edited by Nicola Grandi & Livia Körtvélyessy With examples drawn from over 200 world languages, this ground-breaking volume presents a state-of-the-art overview of evaluative morphology. Offering an innovative approach to major theoretical questions, the Edinburgh Handbook analyses the field from a cross-linguistic perspective, considering semantic, pragmatic and sociolinguistic aspects, as well as word-formation processes and evaluative morphology acquisition. Complementing the synchronic approach with a diachronic perspective, this study establishes a picture of intriguing diversity in evaluative morphology manifestations, and offers a comprehensive analysis of the situation in dozens of languages and language families. Nicola Grandi is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Classic Philology and Italian Studies of the University of Bologna, Italy. Lívia Körtvélyessy is Associate Professor at P. J. Safárik University, Kosice, Slovakia.

Nicola Grandi is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bologna. His research interests include morphology, linguistic typology and language contact. He is the author of two previous monographs on evaluative morphology: Morfologie in Contatto and I Verbi Deverbali Suffissati in Italiano. He co-authored Lingue d'Europa (with E. Banfi) and co-edited Le Lingue Extraeuropee (with E. Banfi) and is the author of numerous articles on evaluative morphology.
Lívia Körtvélyessy is a lecturer at P.J. Safárik University, Kosice. Her research interests include word formation from cross-linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives, and cross-linguistic research into morphology. She is the author of a monograph on the sociolinguistic aspects of word-formation productivity (in 2010, published in Slovak) and she has just published Word Formation in the World's Languages: A Typological Survey (with Pavol Stekauer and Salvador Valera) with Cambridge University Press.