------------------------------------------------------ Comments There are some words which are already inflected, since they have irregular forms. How do I write rules with multiple inflections, which case take these as input partway through the inflection? Or do I just write a fully inflected form for them? The example I have is snake, for which the plural form seems to be irregular. After the plural form however, I could let it inflect for case following the normal rules. You can't, with the LKB morphophonology rules. But, you shouldn't really try. You should assume that some preprocessor is handling the phonological irregularities, and handing you regularized forms. There are some sentences where both the subject and object are in nominative case. I'm not sure what the rules are which determine which case should be used. The lexical rules are currently written so that verbs take a nominative and accusative noun, but this will have to be revised to make it much more open. How can I control overgeneration in this case? What are some strategies? I'm not sure what you mean by lexical "rules" here --- it's the lexical types (for verbs) that are controlling the cases required of their arguments. As to how to handle double nominative sentences, it depends on what the generalizations are. Are there particular verbs that take this pattern? If so, you're talking about a lexical type. Is it a construction with a specific meaning? If so, you're probably talking about a lexical rule (which applies to verbs and changes the case required of the object) or a phrase structure rule. noun-number-lex-rule := add-only-no-ccont-ltol-rule & [ DTR common-noun-lex, INFLECTED - ]. I think it would be cleaner to put [ INFLECTED - ] on common-noun-lex. Otherwise, I suspect the completely uninflected nouns are being allowed as daughters... And they're not, but that's only because you're putting [ INFLECTED - ] directly on the lexical entries. My test cases only include examples of transitive verbs, so I wrote the lexical rule as trans-verb-tense-lex-rule := lexeme-to-word-rule & [DTR transitive-verb-lex]. I'd be surprised if intransitive verbs (and ditransitives, etc) each had different tense inflections. Why not just use verb-lex for the DTR?