@booklet {315606,
	title = {Competitors and alternants in linguistic morphology},
	howpublished = {linguistics.stonybrook.edu},
	year = {2016},
	abstract = {<p>Complementary distribution is a consequence of a general principle of evolutionary biology, competitive exclusion, which further provides a uniform account of both allomorphic variation and the rivalry between affixes in terms of competition for distributional resources. The distribution of inflectional competitors is a type of spatial partitioning, restricted by the morphosyntactic system of a language, while derivational rivals benefit from having to name externally driven concepts. The English suffixes -ce, -cy, and -ntial are analyzed in detail as examples of competition for distribution.</p>
},
	url = {https://linguistics.stonybrook.edu/people/_bios/_linguistics-faculty/_faculty-files/aronoff/Aronoff_pub.php},
	author = {Aronoff, M}
}
