Yearbook of Morphology 1991, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992 Yearbook of Morphology Series

MARK ARONOFF The articles included in this section represent recent research on morpholog­ ical classes which has been independently performed by a number of investi­ gators. This work was presented at a symposium that was organized as part of the 1990-1991 annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Chicago in January 1991. Our aim in presenting this work is twofold: on the one hand, we would like to encourage others interested in morphology to pursue the types of research that we present. This is especially important in the study of morphological classes, which, while they are widespread among the languages of the world, are also highly diverse and often quite complex. On the other hand, we hope to convince researchers in adjacent areas to provide a place for autonomous morphology in their general picture of the workings of language and to pay closer attention to the intricacies of the interactionbetweenmorphologyand theseareas.

Theme ‘Morphological Classes’ Guest Editor: Mark Aronoff.- Syntactically Arbitrary Inflectional Morphology.- Noun Classes in Arapesh.- The Latvian Declension.- Formal Properties of the Conjugations in Modern Aramaic.- The Form Classes of Spanish Substantives.- Morphological Classes and Grammatical Organization.- Theme ‘Productivity’.- Quantitative Aspects of Morphological Productivity.- The Relationship between Morphological Productivity and Frequency: A Comment on Baayen’s Performance-Oriented Conception of Morphological Productivity.- Constraining Psycholinguistic Models of Morphological Processing and Representation: The Role of Productivity.- Scalar Productivity and -lily Adverbs.- Other Articles.- Morphemic Circumscription.- On the Theoretical Status of Position Class Restrictions on Inflectional Affixes.- Book Reviews.- Renato Oniga,I composti nominali latini: una morfologia generativa.- Yakov Malkiel, Diachronic Problems in Phonosymbolism. Edita and Inedita, 1979–1988.- Book Notices.- Wolfgang U. Dressler, Hans C. Luschützky, Oskar E. Pfeiffer, and John R. Rennison (eds.), Contemporary Morphology.- Soledad Varela Ortega, Fundamentos de Morfología.- Journal of the English Linguistic Society, Vol. 7 (1990).- Publications Received.- Notes To Contributors.