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Most recent research in generative morphology has avoided the
treatment of purely morphological phenomena and has focused instead
on interface questions, such as the relation between morphology and
syntax or between morphology and phonology. In this monograph Mark
Aronoff argues that linguists must consider morphology by itself,
not merely as an appendage of syntax and phonology, and that
linguistic theory must allow for a separate and autonomous
morphological component.Following a general introductory chapter,
Aronoff examines two narrow classes of morphological phenomena to
make his case: stems and inflectional classes. Concentrating first
on Latin verb morphology, he argues that morphological stems are
neither syntactic nor phonological units. Next, using data from a
number of languages, he underscores the traditional point that the
inflectional class of a word is not reducible to its syntactic
gender. He then explores in detail the phonologically motivated
nominal inflectional class system of two languages of Papua New
Guinea (Arapeshand Yimas) and the precise nature of the relation
between this system and the corresponding gender system. Finally,
drawing on a number of Semitic languages, Aronoff argues that the
verb classes of these languages are purely inflectional although
they are partly motivated by derivational and syntactic
considerations. Mark Aronoff is Professor of Linguistics at the
State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Aronoff integrates an account of morphological structure into a
general theory of generative grammar. Aronoff integrates an account
of morphological structure into a general theory of generative
grammar.
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