ABSTRACT

In chapter 1 I distinguished two target audiences: linguists who are already morphologists and linguists who are merely inquisitive. There is no need for any special summing-up addressed to the first audience. What has emerged is a picture of considerable variety in the questions which morphologists ask, alongside quite frequent lack of communication between morphologists asking closely related questions. I hope this book may encourage this variety and help to remedy this lack of communication. As to priorities, I have argued that two topics which deserve more attention than they get presently in the Chomskyan tradition are (a) allomorphy and (b) the relationship between morphology and lexical semantics.