An imporatant conclusion of the volume is that morphology can express most or all basic emotions, but endearment and affection are the most frequent. The introduction also identifies four profiles of emotionally loaded morphological devices, including prototypical evaluative morphology, category-changing, usually pejorative devices (often labelled augmentatives), verbal evaluative morphology, and finally emotion markers that belong to TAM paradigms (e.g. apprehensives). An important contribution of the volume consists of detailed descriptions of the emotional values of evaluative morphological devices, for a significant number of languages across most continents. The articles cover geographical areas and/or types of phenomena on which we previously had very little knowledge.