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<p>utrecht</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Idiosyncrasy''' is a property of words or phrases which cannot be derived by the rules of a language. Words can be idiosyncratic in a variety of ways: (a) semantically (by having some unpredictable aspect to their meaning), (b) phonologically (by being an exception to a phonological rule), or (c) morphologically (by being an exception to a word formation rule).<br /> <br /> === Example ===<br /> <br /> an idiosyncratic property of the English verb ''derive'' is that it does not have a nominal counterpart formed with the suffix -''al'' (*''derival'')<br /> <br /> === Link ===<br /> <br /> [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Idiosyncrasy&amp;lemmacode=646 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br /> <br /> === References ===<br /> <br /> * Halle, M. 1973. ''Prolegomena to a Theory of Word-Formation,'' Linguistic Inquiry 4, pp. 451-464<br /> * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.<br /> <br /> {{dc}}<br /> [[Category:Morphology]]</div>

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