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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.

Elements in Morphology would be of interest to:

  • Researchers and scholars in morphology seeking up-to-date summaries of current specialized topics
  • Scholars in other linguistic domains that are interested in how subfields of morphology interface with their own
  • Graduate students wanting to build on their background in morphology or searching for state-of-the-art empirical coverage
  • Advanced undergraduate students hoping to explore foundational and empirical bases of morphology

The series will cover topics including:

  • Why do languages have morphology?
  • Theories and models of inflection and derivation
  • Contemporary methodological advances in morphology
  • Morphological phenomena: affixation types and patterns, morphologically conditioned alternations (segmental and prosodic), syncretism, suppletion, deponency, defectiveness
  • Relationships between morphology and other domains of linguistic analysis

About the Editor

Thomas Stewart is an Associate Professor at the University of Louisville. His research has focused on the  morphological status of the initial consonant mutation systems in Scottish Gaelic, as well as comparable empirical challenges to morpheme-based and affix-centric description. His work has appeared in Word Structure, Diachronica, and Language and Linguistics Compass, among others. He is the author of Contemporary Morphological Theories: A User's Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2015).

Contact the Editor

If you would like more information about this series, or are interested in writing an Element, email Thomas Stewart at: tom.stewart@louisville.edu

Editorial Advisory Board

• Brian D. Joseph (The Ohio State University)
• Gregory T. Stump (University of Kentucky [Emeritus])
• Anna M. Thornton (Università dell'Aquila)
• Jeffrey Good (University at Buffalo)
• Francesca Masini (Università di Bologna)
• Andrea D. Sims (The Ohio State University)