ABSTRACT
Although generative work on morphology has advanced greatly in scope and sophistication in the last twenty years, the morphological agenda for generative linguists is still conditioned to a remarkable extent by the problems originally addressed by Chomsky in Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965) and ‘Remarks on nominalization’ (1970) and by Halle in ‘Prolegomena to a theory of word-formation’ (1973). Our approach will be selective and critical; we will concentrate on those aspects of what they said or did not say which seem most relevant to subsequent developments. In section 2.1.5 we will list the questions which Chomsky’s and Halle’s work provoked, and in later sections discuss what answers to them (if any) have been proposed in more recent work.1
