Expecting the Unexpected

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ISBN: 9783110219081 | 3110219085
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Copyright: 3/17/2011

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Every linguistic theory has to come to grips with a fundamental property of human language: the existence of exceptions, i.e. phenomena that do not follow the standard patterns one observes otherwise. The contributions to this volume discuss and exemplify a variety of approaches to exceptionality within different formal and non-formal frameworks.

Preface	p. ix
Introductory overview
What are exceptions? And what can be done about them?	p. 3
Coming to grips with exceptions	p. 31
Classical loci for exceptions: morphology and the lexicon
Exceptions to stress and harmony in Turkish: co-phonologies or prespecification?	p. 59
Lexical exceptions as prespecification: some critical remarks	p. 95
Feature spreading, lexical specification and truncation	p. 103
Higher order exceptionality in inflectional morphology	p. 107
An I-Language view of morphological 'exceptionality': Comments on Corbett's paper	p. 127
Exceptions and what they tell us: reflections on Anderson's comments	p. 135
How do exceptions arise? On different paths to morphological irregularity	p. 139
On the role of subregularities in the rise of exceptions	p. 163
Statement on the commentary by Wolfgang U. Dressler	p. 169
Taking into account interactions of grammatical sub-systems
Lexical variation in relativizer frequency	p. 175
Corpus evidence and the role of probability estimates in processing decisions	p. 197
Response to Kempson's comments	p. 205
Structured exceptions and case selection in Insular Scandinavian	p. 213
Remarks on two kinds of exceptions: arbitrary vs. structured exceptions	p. 243
Response to Susann Fischer	p. 251
Loosening the strictness of grammar
Three approaches to exceptionality in syntactic typology	p. 255
Remarks on three approaches to exceptionality in syntactic typology	p. 283
A reply to the commentary by Artemis Alexiadou	p. 289
Three types of exceptions - and all of them rule-based	p. 291
Anomalies and exceptions	p. 325
Distinguishing lexical and syntactic exceptions	p. 335
Disagreement, variation, markedness, and other apparent exceptions	p. 339
What is an exception to what? - Some comments on Ralf Vogel's contribution	p. 361
Response to van Riemsdijk	p. 369
Describing exceptions in a formal grammar framework	p. 377
Explanation and constraint relaxation	p. 401
Unexpected loci for exceptions: languages and language families
Quantitative explorations of the worldwide distribution of rare characteristics, or: the exceptionality of northwestern European languages	p. 411
Remarks on rarity	p. 433
Some more details about the definition of rarity	p. 437
Subject index	p. 443
Language index	p. 4493
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