Abstract
In an earlier paper we introduced Network Morphology, an approach to inflectional morphology which relies heavily on the notion of default inheritance (Corbett & Fraser 1993), and showed how a complex set of data pertaining to the inflectional morphology of Russian nominals could be handled in this framework. We extend that analysis here to include a range of phenomena which, we believe, has not previously been described in a single formally explicit framework. The key concept underlying our analysis is that of default inheritance. We introduce this below, together with a lexical knowledge representation language called DATR, which we use to make our analysis fully explicit.2 In Section 3 we describe our approach to gender assignment in Russian; animacy assignment is dealt with in Section 4; and declensional class assignment in Section 5.