ABSTRACT
For the last several years the trend in grammatical theory has
been to grant an increasingly central role to the lexicon. Gone are the
days when the lexicon served only as a repository for the arbitrary and
intractable. In Lexical Functional Grammar (see Kaplan and Bresnan
1982) and a version of Montague Grammar espoused by David Dowty
(Dowty 1978), the lexicon is the sole domain for relation-changing
rules, the same ··cyclic" rules that were once the central concern for
has not been limited to syntacticians. Over the last decade a large
body of work in generative grammar has been focused on developing a
theoretically interesting account of morphology, filling a gap that had
opened between generative phonology and syntax, and yielding insights
in both domains (see, for example, Aronoff 1976, Siegel 1978, and
Selkirk 1982).
