The essays in this volume explore the role of morphosemantic categories such as gender and number in the development and transformation of declension and distinction classes as well as grammatical and pragmatic congruence systems in German. Based on empirical data and facts about language change and language acquisition, they show the relevance of these issues for morphological theory development.

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Andreas Bittner, Münster, Germany, and Constanze Spieß, Graz, Austria.