Doubler-upper nouns: A challenge for usage-based models of language? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Rare but regular double -er nouns call for an analysis which sees them as the output of various interacting grammar rules. These rules explain not only their occasional occurrence but also their surprisingly stable grammatical properties, which can hardly be learned on the basis of these infrequent occurrences alone. However, this apparent victory for rule-based language knowledge need not be interpreted as a victory for the linguistic ...