Expecting the Unexpected: Exceptions in Grammar

by Horst J. Simon (Editor), Heike Wiese (Editor)

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.

457 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 17, 2011