The thesis presents the theory of Morphemes without Morphs (MWM). Words are argued to be made up of abstract items (morphemes), arranged into hierarchical structures; however, these items do not stand in a straightforward exponence relationship with phonological pieces. Abstract morphemes are visible in the phonology, and condition the application of base-altering morphological realization rules, assumed to be a subset of the ordinary rules of the phonology. Application of morphological realization rules requires the conditioning morpheme to be suitably local to the base; deletion of inner morphemes will cause more peripheral morphemes to become suitably local in the course of a derivation. Rules are extrinsically ordered, but the attestable orderings are highly constrained, due to the above considerations. A subset of rules is designated as cyclic, with such rules applying before the noncyclic ones; this conception of cyclicity allows the theory to account for classic Mirror Principle effects, which would otherwise pose a problem. The theory is applied to a range of morphological phenomena: mobile affixation, Mirror Principle violations, exceptional triggering in morphophonology, and others. Implications for the relationship between morphology and phonology are discussed; since MWM treats morphological realization rules as a kind of phonological rule, and since these rules are extrinsically ordered, a wider range of interactions between morphology and phonology is predicted than is usually assumed; it is argued that this prediction is borne out. The theory offers a straightforward solution to the problem of nonconcatenative morphology, while maintaining the hypothesis that the terminal nodes of syntactic structures are morphemes, not words. In contrast to current approaches that adopt the Concatenativist Hypothesis, this thesis takes the A-Morphous view that the phonological material of a word (segments, autosegments, etc.) cannot be divided into units with morphological affiliation-but crucially departs from this view in recognizing the existence of abstract morphological structure. The theory thus brings together schools of thought usually considered to be opposed: in its syntactic assumptions, MWM belongs to the "item-and-arrangement" camp of morphological theory; but in its phonological assumptions, the theory has decidedly "item-and-process" inclinations.

This book develops a theory of the morpheme in the framework of Distributed Morphology. Particular emphasis is devoted to the way in which functional morphemes receive their phonological form post-syntactically, through the operation of Vocabulary Insertion. In addition to looking closely at syncretism, the primary motivation for Vocabulary Insertion, the book examines allomorphy, blocking, and other key topics in the theory of the morpheme.

Generative phonology aims to formalise two distinct aspects of phonological processes: the functional and the representational. Since functions operate on representations, it is clear that the functional aspect is influenced by the form of representations, i.e. different types of representation require different types of rules, principles or constraints. This volume examines the representational issue in phonology and considers what kind of representation is most appropriate for recent models of generative phonology. In particular, it provides the first platform for debate on the place of morpheme-internal structure and on the formal status of phonology in the language faculty, and attempts to identify phonological recursive structure as a means of capturing frequently observed processes.

The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology describes the diversity of morphological phenomena in the world's languages, surveying the methodologies by which these phenomena are investigated and the theoretical interpretations that have been proposed to explain them. The Handbook provides morphologists with a comprehensive account of the interlocking issues and hypotheses that drive research in morphology; for linguists generally, it presents current thought on the interface of morphology with other grammatical components and on the significance of morphology for understanding language change and the psychology of language; for students of linguistics, it is a guide to the present-day landscape of morphological science and to the advances that have brought it to its current state; and for readers in other fields (psychology, philosophy, computer science, and others), it reveals just how much we know about systematic relations of form to content in a language's words - and how much we have yet to learn.

This book presents a phenomenon-oriented survey of the interaction between phonology and morphology. It examines the ways in which morphology, i.e. word formation, demonstrates sensitivity to phonological information and how phonological patterns can be sensitive to morphology. Chapters focus on morphologically conditioned phonology, process morphology, prosodic templates, reduplication, infixation, phonology-morphology interleaving effects, prosodic-morphological mismatches, ineffability, and other cases of phonology-morphology interaction. The overview discusses the relevance of a variety of phenomena for theoretical issues in the field. These include the debate over item-based vs. realizational approaches to morphology; the question of whether cyclic effects can be subsumed under paradigmatic effects; whether reduplication is phonological copying or morphological doubling; whether infixation and suppletive allomorphy are phonologically optimizing, and more. The book is intended to be used in graduate or advanced undergraduate courses or as a reference for those pursuing individual topics in the phonology-morphology interface.