Abstract
The paper presents an overview of recent trends in studying morphology from the neurolinguistic perspective. Neurolinguistic investigations of morphology started by discussing whether morphologically complex words are represented in the brain in a decomposed manner or stored as whole forms.
None of these could fully account for available experimental findings, thus a compromise dual-route approach was adopted. While nowadays there is a wide agreement that representations of complex words have at least partial morphological structure, it is still not clear what precisely determines whether such structure emerges for a particular word or not; commonly mentioned factors are transparency, constituent frequency or type of affixation.
These factors are discussed in the paper, and an experiment is proposed that can contribute to the current debate about the topic.