1988, Andrew Radford,Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press,→ISBN, page 5:
In much the same way,morphological competence is reflected in the native speaker's intuitions aboutmorphological well-formedness and structure. For example, native speakers of English know thatvan andcan have the respective plural formsvans andcans, but that the plural ofman ismen and not *mans. [...]
2006, “Ithkuil Q & A”, inThe Conlanger's Library[1], archived fromthe original on14 January 2025, page 3:
Before I simply create a root meaning X, is there any way I can use Ithkuilmorphological categories or the 150 or so suffix categories to derive this word from a more general or primary word?