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Whether word-based or morpheme-based, the morphological literature in generative grammar (and beyond) is interested in productive word formation - i.e., derivation of open class categories, compounding, and, of course, inflection. While that includes functional morphemes, or corresponding word-formation rules, it almost always involves an open class stem. This book, by contrast, is an investigation of regularities in the internal structure of a set of function words, the determiners.