Aspects of the Theory of Morphology

Aspects of the Theory of Morphology [= ATM] sets out to develop and sharpen a number of concepts crucial to the theory of linguistic morphology. I believe that one of the most urgent tasks of present-day linguistics is exactly that – putting in place a reliable conceptual apparatus. Strange as this might seem, the wild proliferation of formal approaches that swept through linguistics in the 60’s of the last century (and which still continues today) did not bring with it increased rigor in our treatment of basic concepts. Linguistic terminology still is a shambles.1 Imposing some order on morphological concepts and the terms used to describe them is the main challenge to be taken on by ATM