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Quantitative explorations of the worldwide distribution of rare characteristics, or: the exceptionality of northwestern European languages

From the book Expecting the Unexpected: Exceptions in Grammar
Michael Cysouw
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110219098.411
From the book
Expecting the Unexpected: Exceptions in Grammar
Expecting the Unexpected: Exceptions in Grammar

Chapters in this book (36)

Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
What are exceptions? And what can be done about them?
Coming to grips with exceptions
Exceptions to stress and harmony in Turkish: co-phonologies or prespecification?
Lexical exceptions as prespecification: some critical remarks
Feature spreading, lexical specification and truncation
Higher order exceptionality in inflectional morphology
An I-language view of morphological ‘exceptionality’: Comments on Corbett’s paper
Exceptions and what they tell us: reflections on Anderson’s comments
How do exceptions arise? On different paths to morphological irregularity
On the role of subregularities in the rise of exceptions
Statement on the commentary by Wolfgang U. Dressler
Lexical variation in relativizer frequency
Corpus evidence and the role of probability estimates in processing decisions
Response to Kempson’s comments
Structured exceptions and case selection in Insular Scandinavian
Remarks on two kinds of exceptions: arbitrary vs. structured exceptions
Response to Susann Fischer
Three approaches to exceptionality in syntactic typology
Remarks on three approaches to exceptionality in syntactic typology
A reply to the commentary by Artemis Alexiadou
Three types of exceptions – and all of them rule-based
Anomalies and exceptions
Distinguishing lexical and syntactic exceptions
Disagreement, variation, markedness, and other apparent exceptions
What is an exception to what? – Some comments on Ralf Vogel’s contribution
Response to van Riemsdijk
Describing exceptions in a formal grammar framework
Explanation and constraint relaxation
Quantitative explorations of the worldwide distribution of rare characteristics, or: the exceptionality of northwestern European languages
Remarks on rarity
Some more details about the definition of rarity
Subject index
Language index