This is the first of a series of papers that, taken together, will give an essentially complete account of inflection in standard German. In this paper we present that part of the account that covers adjectives, determiners and third person pronouns, one that captures all the regularities, subregularities and irregularities that are involved. The forms are defined in terms of their syllable structure, as proposed in Cahill (1990a, 1990b, 1993). The morphological treatment is based on ideas originally set out by Zwicky (1985). The analysis is formulated as a DATR theory -- a set of lexical axioms -- from which all the relevant facts follow as theorems. DATR is a widely used formal lexical knowledge representation language developed for use in computational linguistics. 1 Introduction Inflectional paradigms in a given language typically resemble each other in all but a few characteristics. What is needed is a natural way of saying "this paradigm is just like this paradigm except for thi...

The question we address in this paper is whether `Lexical Rules' deserve their grand status, a status that is often conveyed by a special purpose formalism and/or a separate component, one that may even be external to the lexicon proper. We will argue that they do not and that a lexical knowledge representation language that is as expressive as it needs to be for other lexical purposes will, ipso facto, be expressive enough to encode `Lexical Rules' internally as lexical rules. Such internal encoding is not only possible but also desirable since `Lexical Rules' will then automatically acquire other characteristics which are now standardly associated with common or garden lexical rules, including inheritance, generalization by default, and the ability to relate lexical information from different levels of linguistic description. We give examples of what we take to be instances of common or garden lexical rules and then show how the same formal machinery provides for the statement of a P...