ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some morphological and phonological aspects of the formation of Polish verbs which display different degrees of morphological complexity as well as words derived from them. It demonstrates that the integration of phonological rules with morphology suggested by lexical phonology should be abandoned in favour of the separational approach of the traditional model. It endeavours to show that cyclic phonology also raises numerous doubts, and discusses that phonological rules ought to be regarded as non-cyclic rather than strictly cyclic. The major difficulty concerns the operation of two rules: verb suffix truncation (VST), which is a part of the adjustment apparatus, and the process of derived imperfective tensing (DI tensing). The chapter argues that the peculiar properties of these rules derive from the multiple phonological processing of complex verbs. To conclude, complex verbs and forms of the kwiaciarka type provide evidence for the multiple application of phonological rules, which results from postulating the phonology-morphology loop.
