Yearbook of Morphology 2004

A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The Yearbook of Morphology, published since 1988, has proven to be an eminent support for this upswing of morphological research, since it contains articles on topics which are central in the current theoretical debates which are frequently referred to.In the Yearbook of Morphology 2004 a number of papers is devoted to the topic 'morphology and linguistic typology'. These papers were presented at the Fourth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting in Catania, in September 2003. Within the context of this denominator, a number of issues are discussed wich bear upon universals and typology. These issues include: universals and diachrony, sign language, syncretism, periphrasis, etc. TOC:Morphological Universals and Diachrony.- Morphological Universals and the Sign Language Type.- Typology and the Formal Modelling of Syncretism.- An Inflectional Approach to Hausa Final Vowel Shortening.- Blocking and Periphrasis in Inflectional Paradigms.- Morphological Autonomy and Diachrony.- A Paradigm Function Account of 'Mesoclisis' in European Portuguese.- Syncretism and Iconicity in Icelandic Noun Declension: A Distributed Morphology Approach.- A Constraint on Interclass Syncretism.- Itelmen Plural Diminutives: A Belated Reply to Perlmutter 1988.- Book Notices.- Morphological Structure in Language Processing.- Phonological Words and Derivation in German.