Expecting the Unexpected: Exceptions in Grammar

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2011

Expecting the Unexpected: Exceptions in Grammar

Edited by: Horst J. Simon and Heike Wiese

Volume 216 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110219098

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About this book

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.

Topics include criteria for exceptionality, the diachronic rise of exceptions, the relevance of different grammatical subsystems and their interaction in the explanation of exceptions, and the crucial characteristics of grammatical models that can accommodate exceptions. A special feature of the book is that the articles are accompanied by peer-commentaries and responses thereupon, thus opening up the papers to further discussion.

Author / Editor information

Horst J. Simon, King's College London, UK; Heike Wiese, University of Potsdam, Germany.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Introductory overview
What are exceptions? And what can be done about them? Horst J. Simon and Heike Wiese Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Coming to grips with exceptions Edith Moravcsik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Classical loci for exceptions: morphology and the lexicon
Exceptions to stress and harmony in Turkish: co-phonologies or prespecification? Barıs¸ Kabak and Irene Vogel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Lexical exceptions as prespecification: some critical remarks T.A. Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Feature spreading, lexical specification and truncation Barıs¸ Kabak and Irene Vogel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Higher order exceptionality in inflectional morphology Greville G. Corbett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
An I-language view of morphological ‘exceptionality’: Comments on Corbett’s paper Stephen R. Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Exceptions and what they tell us: reflections on Anderson’s comments Greville G. Corbett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
How do exceptions arise? On different paths to morphological irregularity Damaris Nübling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
On the role of subregularities in the rise of exceptions Wolfgang U. Dressler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Statement on the commentary by Wolfgang U. Dressler Damaris Nübling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Taking into account interactions of grammatical sub-systems
Lexical variation in relativizer frequency Thomas Wasow and T. Florian Jaeger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Corpus evidence and the role of probability estimates in processing decisions Ruth Kempson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Response to Kempson’s comments Thomas Wasow, T. Florian Jaeger and David Orr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Structured exceptions and case selection in Insular Scandinavian Jóhannes G´ısli Jónsson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Remarks on two kinds of exceptions: arbitrary vs. structured exceptions Susann Fischer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Response to Susann Fischer Jóhannes G´ısli Jónsson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Loosening the strictness of grammar
Three approaches to exceptionality in syntactic typology Frederick J. Newmeyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Remarks on three approaches to exceptionality in syntactic typology Artemis Alexiadou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
A reply to the commentary by Artemis Alexiadou Frederick J. Newmeyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Three types of exceptions – and all of them rule-based Sam Featherston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Anomalies and exceptions Hubert Haider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Distinguishing lexical and syntactic exceptions Sam Featherston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Disagreement, variation, markedness, and other apparent exceptions Ralf Vogel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
What is an exception to what? – Some comments on Ralf Vogel’s contribution Henk van Riemsdijk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
Response to van Riemsdijk Ralf Vogel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
Describing exceptions in a formal grammar framework Frederik Fouvry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Explanation and constraint relaxation Pius ten Hacken Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	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 Michael Cysouw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
Remarks on rarity Östen Dahl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
Some more details about the definition of rarity Michael Cysouw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	443
Language index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	449

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Researchers and Students (Advanced, MA and Ph.D.) of General Linguistics, Participants in the Linguistics Sections within Philologies (= English, German etc.)
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 450
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 34
- Tables: 21
Keywords: General Linguistics

eBook

Published: March 29, 2011
ISBN: 9783110219098

Hardcover

Published: March 17, 2011
ISBN: 9783110219081