Date:  Fri, 7 Apr 1995 08:09:00 EDT

From:  "Dennis.Preston" <22709MGR[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MSU.EDU>

Subject: Harassment



It takes a productive (i.e., non-Beavis-and-Butthead) morphology (at least as

regards -ous) to snicker at Urinous. In some recent work here on trisyllabic

laxing, we have found that lots of so-called productive rules appear not to be

so after all. Looks like lexical representations are winning the day. (E.g.,

divine, divinity; cave, cavity; saline, salinity).

Dennis Preston

<22709mgr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]msu.edu>

chaning to

<preston[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]pilot.msu.edu>