This chapter gives brief descriptions of six different contemporary theories of morphology, looking at their philosophical bases, their main concerns and leading questions, and where they stand on the balance between storage versus rules and on the status of the morpheme. The theories we consider are Distributed Morphology (DM), Construction Morphology (CxM), Paradigm Function Morphology (PFM), Natural Morphology (NM), Naïve Discriminative Learning (NDL), and the Lexical Semantic Framework (LSF).
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