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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Overgeneration''' is a property of ([[word formation rule|word formation]]) rules which entails that they are able to generate entities which are fully [[well-formed]], but are not attested or used by the [[native speaker]]s of a [[language]].<br />
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=== Example ===<br />
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if the rule for -''al'' affixation may derive attested forms such as ''arrival'' and ''refusal'' as well as unattested forms such as ''derival'' and ''describal'', we say that the -''al'' rule overgenerates.<br />
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=== Links ===<br />
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[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Overgeneration&lemmacode=479 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br />
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=== References ===<br />
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* 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 />
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