Chapter Higher order exceptionality in inflectional morphology

• Main Author: Corbett, George (auth)
• Other Authors: Wiese, Heike (Editor), Simon, Horst J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2011
• Subjects: linguistics; Philosophy of language; General Linguistics
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

We start from the notion of 'canonical' inflection, and we adopt an inferential-realizational approach. We assume that we have already established the features and their values for a given system (while acknowledging that this may be a substantial analytic task). In a canonical system, fea...