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At least since Siegel (1974) there has been a debate about the principles and mechanisms that constrain the combinatorial properties of affixes, in particular of English suffixes. A classic example to illustrate the problem of combinatorial restrictions is given in (1):
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Plag, I. (2002). The role of selectional restrictions, phonotactics and parsing in constraining suffix ordering in English. In: Booij, G., Van Marle, J. (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 2001. Yearbook of Morphology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3726-5_11
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