A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years.
The periodical Yearbook of Morphology, published since 1988, has proven
to be an eminent support for this upswing of morphological research, and
has shown that morphology is central to present-day linguistic
theorizing.
In the Yearbook of Morphology 2005 a number of important theoretical
issues are discussed: the role of inflectional paradigms in
morphological analysis, the differences between words and affixes, and
the adequacy of competing models of word structure.
In addition, the role of phonological factors in shaping complex words
is discussed.
Evidence for particular positions defended in this volume is taken from
a wide variety of languages.
This volume is of interest to those working in theoretical, descriptive
and historical linguistics, morphologists, phonologists, computational
linguists, and psycholinguists.