What constrains possible suffix combinations? On the interaction of grammatical and processing restrictions in derivational morphology

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 565-596

  Hay, Jennifer ^a   Plag, Ingo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

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EID: 4043073380     PISSN: 0167806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:NALA.0000027679.63308.89     Document Type: Conference Paper

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