An investigation of how children balance rules and exceptions when they learn languages.
All languages have exceptions alongside overarching rules and regularities. How does a …

This volume provides an introduction to word and paradigm models of morphology and the
general perspectives on linguistic morphology that they embody. The recent revitalization of …

Sometimes dismissed as linguistically epiphenomenal, inflectional paradigms are, in reality,
the interface of a language's morphology with its syntax and semantics. Drawing on …

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In this radically new approach to morphological typology, the authors set out new and
explicit methods for the typological classification of languages. Drawing on evidence from a …

This book argues (a) that there is no principled way to distinguish inflection and derivation
and (b) that this fatally undermines conventional approaches to morphology. Conceptual …

Features are a central concept in linguistic analysis. They are the basic building blocks of
linguistic units, such as words. For many linguists they offer the most revealing way to …

essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of
perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing …

Paradigmatic gaps ('missing'inflected forms) have traditionally been considered to be the
random detritus of a language's history and marginal exceptions to the normal functioning of …

We address variable morphotactics, the phenomenon of order variability of morphs, in the
context of inflectional morphology. Based on an extended discussion of cross-linguistic …