| Summary: | In the field of morphology, it has been known for a long time that derivation precedes inflexion, and not the other way round (Greenberg 1963: 83). Among others, Stump (1989, 1990) emphasized the fact that parts of the Breton language data may be exceptions to that rule. This opinion was discussed again, quite recently, by Acquaviva (2008), who thinks that only the number inflexion units may be used as derivation roots in Breton. In Belder’s view (2010), inflexion may not precede derivation in Breton, since the plural 1 that precedes a plural 2 has no status in the language except that of a thematic allomorph. In this paper, my aim is to demonstrate that the selection of an inflected root does not only apply to plural nouns, in Breton. In certain cases, it falls within the more general problematics of reduplication of one single morphological mark.
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