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Morphology
Morphology and syntax are intimately linked (e.g. morphemes give clues about underlying syntactic structure), as are morphology and phonology (e.g. many phonological processes can only be observed at morpheme boundaries). Ordinarily, morphophonology and morphosyntax are studied separately, but the degree to which the two can inform each other may be worth investigating. For example, when does the syntactic evidence for a bimorphemic analysis (e.g. failure of certain verbs to cooccur with prepositional particles, in English) line up with the phonological evidence (e.g. the iambic stress pattern of those same verbs)? A broad survey of cross-linguistic data is being planned which would utilize some of the results of the vowel reduction project (see the Phonology page) and of the Syntax subprojects.
Currently there are two more specific Subprojects being pursued which are relevant to Morphology:
SUBPROJECTS
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