Andrew Nevins
Take the kinship relations denoted by `brother/mother/father/sister in law’, featuring a morphologically complex item involving derivational processes. Pluralization of such nouns, occurring externally, should yield ‘sister-in-laws’, but an extremely frequent variant is ‘sisters-in-law’. This displaced, internalized inflection involves a morphotactic rearrangement, based on the specific well-formedness principles governing morphology within the word domain. Now consider […]