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This paper investigates what looks like a case of subtractive plural morphology in Hessian German, illustrated in (1).
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Golston, C., Wiese, R. (1996). Zero morphology and constraint interaction: subtraction and epenthesis in German dialects. In: Booij, G., van Marle, J. (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 1995. Yearbook of Morphology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3716-6_8
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