Oceanic Linguistics, vol. Contents Notes from the editor, iii This issue marks several milestones. Founding editor George W. Grace, after serving 30 years, passes the baton to Byron W. Bender. It also contains papers from the 6th International Conference of Austronesian Linguistics, held in Honolulu in 1991.
More conference papers appear in succeeding issues.
A critical analysis is presented of the development and the present state of morphology. First, a short account is given of the historical development of morphology in the last fifty years, with special reference to Neo-Bloomfieldian linguistics and generative grammar. Then an attempt is made to characterize the present situation in morphology. Finally, some fundamental revisions in morphological theory are proposed that are considered to be indispensable for further progress. Although possession is a fundamental and universal semantic relation, many languages lack an original lexeme 'to have'.