About Elements in Morphology
The field of morphology has undergone a renaissance in recent decades. It has a long tradition of significance in linguistic theory and grammatical description. Morphology has come back into view owing to the set of word- and sub-word-level phenomena that seem not to reduce to the concerns and activities of the independently motivated adjacent components. This series reflects the internal workings of morphology, on the one hand, and its relations with other linguistic systems as viewed from the perspective of morphology, on the other. Basic research in morphology addresses fundamental questions such as:
- What word-formation processes are found in the languages of the world;
- What inflectional properties and lexical relations are formally and systematically marked on words;
- What patterns of combination are observed in featurally and/or semantically complex words;
- What formal and/or functional principles guide the shape and operation of synchronic morphological systems; and
- What principles motivate and/or limit morphological change over time.
Branching out from these disciplinary, theoretical, and empirical bases, the series brings forward scholarly works of high quality, offering in a compact, accessible format, presentations of its current state and indications of upcoming explorations across the domains of morphological investigation.