Expecting the Unexpected: Exceptions in Grammar

Author/Contributor(s):	Simon, Horst J ; Wiese, Heike
Publisher:	Walter de Gruyter
Date:	03/17/2011
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Every linguistic theory has to come to grips with a fundamental property of human language: the existence of exceptions, i.e. phenomena that do not follow the standard patterns one observes otherwise. The contributions to this volume discuss and exemplify a variety of approaches to exceptionality within different formal and non-formal frameworks.