Abstract
In a number of recent studies attention has been drawn to the fact that the morphology of a language does not always exhibit a simple relation between form and meaning. That is, the formal side of morphology has a certain autonomy. The title of Aronoff’s recent book, Morphology by Itself (Aronoff 1994) nicely expresses this idea of the autonomy of morphological form. For instance, the form-meaning relations in inflection may be mediated by inflectional classes (declinational classes for nouns and adjectives, and conjugational classes for verbs). As Aronoff (1994) pointed out, the existence of such classes results in one-to-many relations between morpho-syntactic properties of lexemes and their phonological forms.
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