Abstract

This chapter applies the tools of Relational Morphology, developed in the previous chapters, to a wide range of canonical and noncanonical morphological patterns, primarily in English, German, and Dutch. The phenomena discussed include affixes that occur in only a single word; words with legitimate affixes but nonlexical bases (a.k.a cranberry morphs); idioms; conversions and other zero morphology; linking elements; cumulative exponence; multiple exponence; sister words; sister schemas; blends and truncations; umlaut and other stem allomorphy; infixation and reduplication. In most of these cases, the complications turn out to lie in the interface between morphosyntax and phonology. In addition, many of the phenomena involve the use of sister schemas (also known as second-order schemas) and the same-except relation, which give the grammar great flexibility

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