ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts covered in this book. The book investigates various ways in which phonological rules of Polish and English interact with the morphologies of both languages and explores the best model for describing these interactions. It explains the role of 'grammatical prerequisites' to phonological analysis of the abstract generative type. The issue of paramount importance has been to decide the mutual relationship of the morphological and phonological components. Two approaches, which have been termed 'integrational' and 'separational', have been put side by side and applied to the description of selected problems of Polish and English phonology as well as, to a lesser extent, morphology. With respect to English, the book offers an analysis of two classes of affixes, and proposes a mechanism accounting for rule conditioning and rule blocking. Moreover, it suggests a method of handling dual class affixes, whose adequate description is very troublesome for other approaches.
