Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introductory overview -- What are exceptions? And what can be done about them? -- Coming to grips with exceptions -- Classical loci for exceptions: morphology and the lexicon -- Exceptions to stress and harmony in Turkish: co-phonologies or prespecification? -- Lexical exceptions as prespecification: some critical remarks -- Feature spreading, lexical specification and truncation -- Higher order exceptionality in inflectional morphology -- An I-language view of morphological 'exceptionality': Comments on Corbett's paper -- Exceptions and what they tell us: reflections on Anderson's comments -- How do exceptions arise? On different paths to morphological irregularity -- On the role of subregularities in the rise of exceptions -- Statement on the commentary by Wolfgang U. Dressler -- Taking into account interactions of grammatical sub-systems -- Lexical variation in relativizer frequency -- Corpus evidence and the role of probability estimates in processing decisions -- Response to Kempson's comments -- Structured exceptions and case selection in Insular Scandinavian -- Remarks on two kinds of exceptions: arbitrary vs. structured exceptions -- Response to Susann Fischer -- Loosening the strictness of grammar -- Three approaches to exceptionality in syntactic typology -- Remarks on three approaches to exceptionality in syntactic typology -- A reply to the commentary by Artemis Alexiadou -- Three types of exceptions - and all of them rule-based -- Anomalies and exceptions -- Distinguishing lexical and syntactic exceptions -- Disagreement, variation, markedness, and other apparent exceptions -- What is an exception to what? - Some comments on Ralf Vogel's contribution -- Response to van Riemsdijk -- Describing exceptions in a formal grammar framework -- Explanation and constraint relaxation -- Unexpected loci for exceptions: languages and language families -- Quantitative explorations of the worldwide distribution of rare characteristics, or: the exceptionality of northwestern European languages -- Remarks on rarity -- Some more details about the definition of rarity -- Subject index -- Language index