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A number of years ago, I presented an analysis of parts of the inflectional system of the Algonquian language Potawatomi (Anderson 1977), based on descriptive material of Charles Hockett (1948, 1966) and intended to illustrate some general points about the nature of inflectional systems. Essentially the same analysis appeared with some minor refinements in my morphology book (Anderson 1992) a few years ago, again to exemplify some basic issues of theory. This analysis has been subjected to a certain amount of critical examination in the subsequent literature, for which I am grateful, and some of the conclusions I drew from the Potawatomi material have been called into question. I do not intend in this article to deal with all of the points raised in this discussion, but rather to focus on a few issues that seem to me particularly significant for morphology per se, especially as these arise in the critiques of my analysis presented by Halle and Marantz (1993) and Steele (1995).
The work represented here was supported in part by grants number SBR-9514682 and SBR-9876456 from the US National Science Foundation to Yale University. Earlier versions were presented to the Second Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, Malta, 10 September, 1999 and to the Australian Linguistic Society at its annual meeting in Perth on 30 September, 1999. Comments from the participants in both of these meetings are gratefully acknowledged.
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Anderson, S.R. (2001). On some issues in morphological exponence. In: Booij, G., Van Marle, J. (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 2000. Yearbook of Morphology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3724-1_1
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