A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years.
The Yearbook of Morphology series, published since 1988, has proven to
be an eminent support for this upswing of morphological research, since
it contains articles on topics which are central in the current
theoretical debates which are frequently referred to.
The Yearbook of Morphology 2000 focuses on the relation between
morphology and syntax. First, a number of articles is devoted to the
ways in which morphological features can be expressed in the grammar of
natural languages, both by morphological and syntactic devices. This
also raises the more general issue of how we have to conceive of the
relation between form and (grammatical) meaning. Several formalisms for
inflectional paradigms are proposed. In addition, this volume deals with
the demarcation between morphology and syntax: to which extent can
syntactic principles and generalizations be used for a proper account of
the morphology of a language? The languages discussed are Potawatomi,
Latin, Greek, Romanian, West-Greenlandic, and German. A special feature
of this volume is a section devoted to the analysis of the morphosyntax
of a number of Austronesian languages, which are also relevant for
deepening our insights into the relation between our morphology and
syntax.
Audience: Theoretical, descriptive, and historical linguists,
morphologists, phonologists, computational linguists, and
psycholinguists will find this book of interest
