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• Bleeding order
  ...r''' is an order of rules such that one rule destroys the input of another rule. ...t be applied before rule (b). If (b) would precede rule (a) it would bleed rule (a): the vowel cannot be nasalized anymore and [bõ] could not be derived.
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• Allomorphy rule
  '''Allomorphy rule''' is a special type of word formation rule (adjustment rule) proposed by Aronoff (1976) to account for allomorphic variation. Allomorph Aronoff assumes for English an allomorphy rule which changes the [[verbal suffix]] ''-fy'' (''amplify'', ''electrify'') in
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• Morpholexical rule
  ...roper and the phonological component. The main motivation for this type of rule is that there are cases in which word formation rules need to have access t ...precise shape of the allomorph must be known at the time the morphological rule of reduplication applies.
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• Disjunctive ordering
  ...le A, even if the output of rule A satisfies the structural description of rule B. See also parenthesis notation. rule (a) and (b) are two rules among the stress rules of English:
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• Overgeneration
  '''Overgeneration''' is a property of ([[word formation rule|word formation]]) rules which entails that they are able to generate entiti ...ested forms such as ''derival'' and ''describal'', we say that the -''al'' rule overgenerates.
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• End rule
  '''End rule''' is a type of stress rule, first introduced by Prince (1983)), which captures the delimitative and cu In English, the End Rule that assigns main word stress applies domain-finally at the line indicated
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• Crazy rule
  ...but has no apparent synchronic motivation, is sometimes called a '''crazy rule'''. Such rules sometimes arise through sound changes whose original motivat * [[unnatural]] rule
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• Lexical transformation
  ...the inserted word into the lexically unspecified slot created by the Affix Rule (cf. iv): (i) drive [..]_NP<nowiki> =&gt; (= Affix Rule)
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• Destressing
  ...estressing rules adjust the representation assigned by [[stress assignment rule]]s. ...destressing rule: /bà nána/ /banána/. The application of the destressing rule explains that the vowel of the first syllable can reduce (cf. [bana¡na]),
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• Structure-changing rule
  '''Structure-changing rule''' is a rule which changes already specified information, and renders the output form di ...hich devoices obstruents in a particular environment, say word final, this rule will be structure-changing if it changes [-son, +voice] into [-son, -voice]
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• Heavy-NP shift
  '''Heavy-NP shift''' presumably is a so-called stylistic rule, i.e. a rule which does not belong to [[core grammar]]. It may be related to [[scramblin
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• Rule feature
  ...ritic feature which triggers (or blocks) the application of a phonological rule. This feature is usually assumed to account for irregular word formation. ...''tooth'', have a rule feature [+U] which triggers the phonological umlaut rule.
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• Structure-building rule
  ...ule''' is a rule which does not change already specified information. This rule just fills in information which is unspecified. ...he course of a derivation [voice] can be filled in by a structure-building rule. A property of structure-building rules is that the input and output are no
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• Absorption
  At [[LF]]: rule that derives a kind of [[conjunction]] of referential indices: This rule accounts for cases of crossed binding at [[LF]] (see [[Bach-Peters paradox]
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• Idiosyncrasy
  ...l rule), or (c) morphologically (by being an exception to a word formation rule).
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• Word formation rule
  '''Word Formation Rule''' is a rule of grammar by which morphologically complex [[word]]s are formed out of (fr *[[Readjustment rule]]
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• Strict Cyclicity
  '''Strict Cyclicity''' is a rule that may apply to a string x just in case either of the following holds: a. The rule makes crucial reference to information in the
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• Redundancy rule
  '''Redundancy rule''' is rule which fills in predictable or redundant information. [[Redundancy]] rules h ...ving the feature [voice] unspecified, and fill in [+voice] by a redundancy rule. The idea behind redundancy rules and [[underspecification]] is that redund
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• Interpretive rules
  ...Montague Grammar]]), there will be a interpretive rule for every syntactic rule.
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• One-affix-one-rule hypothesis
  ...-one-rule hypothesis''' is a hypothesis which says that a [[word formation rule]] specifies a unique phonological [[operation]] which is performed on the [ ...ent nouns and instrument nouns are formed are identical. The one-affix-one-rule hypothesis says that we have two rules here, but this claim does not explai
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• LP-rule
  LP-rules restrict the set of local trees admitted by an ID-rule. An LD-rule ''X'' <math>\prec</math> ''Y'' states that category ''X'' has to precede ca * [[ID-rule]]
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• ID/LP rules
  ...(GPSG) uses [[ID-rule|ID-rules]] (''immediate dominance rules'') and [[LP-rule|LP-rules]] (''linear precedence rules'') instead of context-free phrase str ...nterpreted as well-formedness conditions for [[local tree|local trees]]. A rule like ''X'' <math>\rightarrow</math> <math>Y_1</math> <math>Y_2</math> ... <
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• Underspecification
  ...n all other contexts. See [[Structure preservation]], [[structure-building rule]].
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• Readjustment rule
  ...by Chomsky &amp; Halle (1968) to modify the output of the [[word formation rule]]s or the output of the syntactic rules before these structures enter the p [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Readjustment+rule&lemmacode=314 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Transformational rule
  '''Transformational rule''' is a [[rule]] that transforms [[syntactic structure]]. [[Deletion]], Insertion, and [[m *[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Transformational+rule&lemmacode=187 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Structure preservation
  A rule or rule system is structure preserving if its output is independently available as ...ng, but characteristically this rule does not effect sonorants. Hence, the rule of final devoicing is structure preserving.
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• A-over-A
  ...t if a rule ambiguously refers to A in a structure of the form of (i), the rule must apply to the higher, more inclusive, node A (Chomsky 1964).
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• ID-rule
  An ID-rule ''X'' <math>\rightarrow</math> <math>Y_1,</math> <math>Y_2,</math> ..., <ma * [[LP-rule]]
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• Adjacency Condition
  ...gical rule. Intuitively, the Adjacency Condition prevents a word formation rule from looking into the entire derivational history of morphologically comple ...ub>A</sub>''), and the Adjacency Condition makes the ''-baar'' suffixation rule insensitive to the intransitive nature of the [[verb]] ''klimmen''.
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• Separation hypothesis
  ...separated from their [[function]]. Beard distinguishes [[L-rule]]s and [[M-rule]]s, and assumes that L-rules are grammatical processes which change or add ...he chance of giving phonological content to the function supplied by the L-rule.
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• Lexical category prominence
  .... [[feet]] (=F)) that consist of syllables. The main part of this labeling rule in English states that in a configuration [A B], B is labeled strong if and
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• Sound change
  ...called a [[sound law]] or a [[phonetical rule]]. Exceptions to the law or rule can normally be explained by analogy. Some important sound laws were descri
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• Phrase structure rules
  Thus the phrase structure rule in (ii)a characterizes a sentence (S) as the combination of an NP (the subj ...ule in (ii)b gives the internal structure of the [[VP]]. According to this rule, a verbal phrase consists of a verb and, optionally, an [[NP]] and a [[PP]]
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• Feature specification defaults
  ...category which are not determined by any other module of the grammar ([[ID-rule]], lexicon entry, [[Feature instantiation principles]], etc.). ...instantiated in any lexical category; i.e. it has to be licenced by an ID-rule or an lexical entry.
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• Metarules
  ...o generate for each VP-rule introducing a transitive verb a new lexical ID rule which introduces a passive verb form accompanied by the same phrases, excep
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• Diphthongization
  '''Diphthongization''' is a [[phonological rule]] involving a change from a [[monophtong]] to a [[diphthong]].
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• Generate
  ...ules starting with applying a rule to the start symbol and each successive rule being applied to the output of the former, until no auxiliary symbols remai
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• Global economy
  It will rule out (ii), because the link between the wh-element and its trace is longer i The local version of the MLC will rule out the derivation with movement of ''what'' right at this point in the der
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• Extrinsische Regelordnung
  *Pelletier, F. J. 1980. The Generative Power of Rule Orderings in Formal Grammars. ''Linguistics'' 18, 17–72. Englisch [[extrinsic rule order]]
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• Derivative
  A '''derivative''' is a [[lexeme]] that is related to another lexeme by a rule of [[derivation]].
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• Atom Condition
  ...is Atom Condition, Williams is able to account for the fact the affixation rule which attaches ''-ion'' can (indirectly) refer to the root features.
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• Allophony
  ...The differences between the allophones can be expressed by [[phonological rule]]s.
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• Surface structure
  ...ived from Deep structure ( [[D-structure]]) by means of [[transformational rule]]s. Also [[S-structure]].
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• Head
  ...d. This generalization lies at the heart of the so-called [[Righthand Head Rule]]. ...thstand''. Also see [[relativized head]], and [[Relativized Righthand Head Rule]].
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• Psych-movement
  '''Psych-movement''' is a rule which is similar to [[passive]], in that it [[move]]s the [[object]] of a [
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• Braces
  Braces are a means to abbreviate the rules (i) and (ii) as the one rule (iii).
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• Insert alpha
  ...x]], '''insert alpha''' is an instance of the general [[transformation]]al rule [[affect alpha]]. Few rules that insert material in the course of a derivat
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• Pronominalization (in generative grammar)
  ...to account for the occurrence of anaphoric pronouns by a transformational rule.
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• Morpheme-based morphology
  ...heory it is assumed that new words are formed by applying a word formation rule to a single already existing word. Both the new word and the existing one a ...d morphology the words in (i) cannot be formed by a regular word formation rule. In a morpheme-based morphology, on the other hand, it is allowed to genera
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• Base component
  ...mar in which [[D-structure]]s are generated by means of [[phrase structure rule]]s and the [[Projection Principle]], on the basis of information from the [
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• Cyclicity
  ...ounding nodes. Originally, cyclicity was considered a property of rules or rule systems: a set of rules are to be applied cyclically to successively larger
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• Morphologization
  ...n the context of the affixal front-vowel ''i'', changed to a morphological rule which led to umlaut-formation in plural-contexts. This strategy has been de
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• Superiority condition
  No rule can involve X,Y in the structure where the rule applies ambiguously to Z and Y
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• IS A Condition
  ...he Is A Condition is the predecessor of Williams' (1981a) [[Righthand Head Rule]].
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• Lexicalization
  ...uming that lexicalization eradicates internal boundaries, the phonological rule FINAL DEVOICING cannot apply in the lexicalized form.
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• Crossover
  ...ioned in the structural index of a transformation may be reordered by that rule in such a way as to cross over a co-referential NP.'' (Ross 1967:73)
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• S-structure
  ...level of representation derived from [[d-structure]] by [[transformational rule]]s, and input to the rules deriving [[PF]] and [[LF]]. S-structure is the [
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• Escape hatch
  No rule can invoke X,Y in the structure
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• Extrametricality
  ...re not there. Hayes (1982) argues that extrametricality can be assigned by rule and is subject to the [[Peripherality Condition]]<nowiki>: extrametrical el
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• Blocking
  ...tal dictionary, prevents the application of an unproductive word formation rule, if that application would give rise to a complex word having the same sema
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• Lexicon
  ...a word which can be predicted by phonological, morphological, or syntactic rule will therefore be excluded from the lexicon. In this approach the lexicon i ...ation rule which adds -''ity''<nowiki> to adjectives, and by means of this rule the form [[opaque] ity] is derived. This form is changed into </nowiki>''op
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• Expletive infixation
  ...e term '''expletive infixation''' is sometimes used for the [[infixation]] rule that allows speakers to insert an expletive word (i.e. a rude word such as
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• Bare argument ellipsis
  :::*''“...a rule that deletes everything in a clause under identity with corresponding parts
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• Morpheme Structure Condition
  ...logical shape of morphemes are sometimes expressed by lexical [[redundancy rule]]s.
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• Right node raising
  * Postal, P.M. 1974. ''On Raising. One Rule of English Grammar and its Theoretical Implications,'' The MIT Press: Cambr
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• Derivation
  ...generative syntax|generative syntax]], it refers to the entire sequence of rule applications in the process of generating a terminal string on the basis of
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• Allomorph
  The rule is as follows:
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• Swedish
  * Sydsvenska mål: was under Danish rule until 1658; spoken in Skåne, Blekinge, boarderlands of Halland and souther
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• No Phrase Constraint
  *[[Botha, Rudolf]]. 1981. “A Base Rule Theory of Afrikaans Synthetic Compounding”. In: ''The Scope of Lexical Ru
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• Loop
  ...level]] (or [[stratum]]) n-1 after the application of the [[word formation rule]]s of level/stratum n.
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• ID-Regel
  * Englisch [[ID-rule]]
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• Macroparadigm
  ...tems with [[front vowel]]s select front vowels. This variation is due to a rule of [[vowel harmony]]. Second, if a consonant cluster of three members arise
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• Ersetzungsregel
  Englisch [[rewriting rule]] <br> Französisch [[règle du réécriture]]<br>
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• Word-based morphology
  ...] processes are word-based. A new [[word]] is formed by applying a regular rule to a single already existing word. Both the new word and the existing one a
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• LP-Regel
  * Englisch [[LP-rule]]
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• Verner's law
  ...ties. According to his biographical notes (Verner 1903), he formulated the rule already in 1875 and published it in 1876 under a misleading title ''Eine Au Verner's rule can be exemplified with the development of the word ''*ph₂tḗr'
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• Lexikonregel
  Englisch [[lexical rule]]
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• Stress subordination principle
  ...assignment of stress in the [[compound]] ''black-board''. The main stress rule applies in a cyclic fashion (see [[cyclic domain]]), reassigning [1stress];
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• Institutionalized
  ...zed]], i.e. have special properties not predictable from its parts and the rule by which it was created.
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• Portal:Psycholinguistics
  ...ect]], [[sine-wave speech]], [[categorical perception]], [[consonant-vowel rule]], [[duplex perception]], [[fuzzy logic model of perception]], [[stranding ...sentence]], [[late closure]], [[minimal attachment]], [[syntactic category rule]], [[syntactic frame]], [[trace deletion hypothesis]]
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• Extraposition
  '''Extraposition''' is originally a movement rule that moves [[CP]]s and PPs to the [[right periphery]] of the [[sentence]].
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• Elliptical
  In syntax, the term '''ellipsis''' is used for cases of rule-governed omission of constituents that are notionally and syntactically req
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• Metrical tree
  ...eled Weak-Strong or Strong-Weak (or by the [[Lexical Category Prominence]] Rule).
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• Specified subject condition
  (i) No rule can involve X, Y in the structure
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• Realizational formula
  ...ory. A realizational formula bears a superficial resemblance to a rewrite rule. But unlike rewrite or mutation rules in a process description, realizatio
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• Righthand head rule
  '''Righthand Head Rule''' is a principle proposed in Williams (1981a) which says that the righthan *[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Righthand+Head+Rule&lemmacode=353 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Agglutinating language
  ...uage''' is a language which has a morphological system in which words as a rule are polymorphemic and where each [[morpheme]] corresponds to a single lexic
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• Tagger
  It is common practice to distinguish between rule-based and stochastic taggers, though some taggers combine rules and stochas
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• Ellipsis
  In syntax, the term '''ellipsis''' is used for cases of rule-governed omission of constituents that are notionally and syntactically req
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• Gapping
  ...term was introduced by Ross (1967) as a kind of [[conjunction reduction]] rule.
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• Morphological component
  A component in the grammar in which the [[word formation rule]]s apply. The question whether there is actually an autonomous morphologica
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• Osthoff's law
  * Kiparsky, Paul. 1967. A phonological rule of Greek. ''Glotta'' 44.109-34.
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• Functional Grammar
  ...tico-pragmatic [[underlying representation]] (UR) by means of [[expression rule]]s.
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• Tensed-S Condition
  No rule can involve X,Y in the structure ...X...[_a...Y...]...
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• Truncation
  ...oblematic. Aronoff (1976) solves this problem by allowing for a truncation rule that deletes -''ate'' if it is followed by -''ee'', as in (ii):
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• Stress
  ...', ''a PICture frame''. There are many (partly regular) exceptions to this rule, however, e.g. ''silk TIE'' and ''apple PIE'' (cf. Plag 2003).
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• Raising to object
  * Postal, P.M. 1974. ''On Raising. One Rule of English Grammar and its Theoretical Implications,'' The MIT Press: Cambr
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• Quantifier Raising
  ...] of the operator can be calculated. One empirical advantage of assuming a rule of QR which mediates the determination of relative scope is that it explain
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• Lexical morphology
  ...domain of application. Within the lexicon, the output of a word formation rule is submitted to the phonological rules of that level. In this respect, the
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• Restructuring
  ...s illustrated in (ii). No satisfactory formalization of Restructuring as a rule is available. A [[verb raising]] type of analysis, which would create a ver
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