This volume presents a selection of papers read at the international conference "Lexicon in Focus", held under the auspices of the Sonderforschungsbereich "Theory of the Lexicon" (Düsseldorf / Wuppertal / Cologne) at Wuppertal in August 1998. This conference focused on the lexical perspective on questions that dominated the linguistic discussion of the nineties. It brought together experts from different fields, ranging from lexical phonology to lexical semantics. The participants were asked to discuss three issues which cross these different fields and which we considered matters of controversy: Lexical constraints and the generation of candidates Economy principles in the lexicon Semantic composition within and outside of words.

Barbara Stiebels / Dieter Wunderlich: Introduction Sharon Inkelas: Phonotactic blocking through structural immunity Cemil Orhan Orgun / Ronald Sprouse: Understanding ungrammaticality Janet Grijzenhout / Martin Krämer: Final devoicing and voicing assimilation in Dutch derivation and cliticization James P. Blevins: Markedness and Blocking in German Declensional Paradigms Carsten Steins: How to account for non-concatenative phenomena in a morpheme-based theory Stephen R. Anderson: Some lexicalist remarks on incorporation phenomena Elisabeth Löbel: Case alternation in Finnish copular constructions Gisbert Fanselow: Optimal Exceptions Barbara Stiebels: Linker inventories, linking splits and lexical economy Dieter Wunderlich: Predicate composition and argument extension as general options a study in the interface of semantic and conceptual structure