Canonical Tough Cases

In a steady stream of influential work over the years, Grev Corbett has clarified and cleared up question after question in morphosyntactic description and comparison, Slavic and general. His path-breaking notion of canonicality and the theoretical work it has triggered (Corbett 2007, 2013, 2015; Corbett and Fedden 2016; and many other publications) has solved a number of thorny problems in descriptive and comparative morphosyntax, and it can force us to look closely at familiar but underexamined phenomena and in some cases can make it possible to ask entirely new questions. This paper gives some examples of what I consider familiar