Jim Wood Exo-Words Workshop, Penn State University, March 25th, 2023 Allomorphy and Allosemy in Nominalizations Jim Wood Yale University 1 Introduction • Natural languages have many morphemes that “have more than one meaning.” • All specific examples have historical explanations. • But the overall phenomenon is extremely widespread, indicating: – Languages seem to be really ready to develop in this way. – Speakers are really ready to learn languages like this. → Today: How a particular way of thinking about this solves certain long-standing puzzles of nominalization. Book Manuscript 1 This Handout