Defaults and overrides in morphological description

TY - CHAP

T1 - Defaults and overrides in morphological description

AU - Brown, Dunstan

PY - 2016/1/1

Y1 - 2016/1/1

N2 - Defaults play an important role in modern theories of morphology. This chapter starts by considering how they relate to notions such as regularity and productivity. Discussing briefly earlier derivation-based conceptions that arose in phonology, it moves on to look at declarative inheritance-based approaches to morphology. It also illustrates where defaults can be used both to account for what is exceptional and, in contrast, what is the normal case. We then turn to an area which has received much less attention, namely overrides. We conclude by noting the value of defaults for extracting generalizations, while emphasizing the importance of computational implementation.

AB - Defaults play an important role in modern theories of morphology. This chapter starts by considering how they relate to notions such as regularity and productivity. Discussing briefly earlier derivation-based conceptions that arose in phonology, it moves on to look at declarative inheritance-based approaches to morphology. It also illustrates where defaults can be used both to account for what is exceptional and, in contrast, what is the normal case. We then turn to an area which has received much less attention, namely overrides. We conclude by noting the value of defaults for extracting generalizations, while emphasizing the importance of computational implementation.

KW - defaults

KW - default

KW - default inheritance

KW - regularity

KW - override

KW - markedness

KW - productivity

KW - canonicity

KW - principal parts

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9781107038271

BT - The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology

A2 - Hippisley, Andrew

A2 - Stump, Gregory

PB - Cambridge University Press

CY - Cambridge

ER -