Magyar Nyelvőr

Laczkó, Krisztina: Basic elements of morphology. The paper is a chapter of 'Hungarian Grammar' (Keszler, Borbála ed., Magyar grammatika. Budapest: Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó, to be published in 1999), which is not only a university textbook but, according to its authors' intentions, a reference grammar as well.

The present chapter offers a general introduction to morphological studies. It introduces basic morphological categories such as minimal sign, morph, morpheme, and allomorph, roots and affixes, etc. It deals with the problem of segmentation, lexical versus grammatical meaning, free and bound morphemes, semi-affixes and combining forms. The paper aims to give a summary of the most general issues in Hungarian morphology.