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Kim, Sun-Hoi. 2010. Exceptions and Frequency Effect: Focusing on doubl-ing and doub-ly. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 35-3, 543-561. This paper explores the avoidance of non-adjacent sequences of -ing morphemes, one of the morpho-phonological characteristics of English. This exploration is based on a corpus-based analysis through using and investigating the data of the British National Corpus (BNC). In this paper, the corpus-based analysis confirms the adequacy of Ross' (1972), Milsark's (1988), and Yip's (1995) argument that the [V1-ing V2-ing] sequence, named doubl-ing, is avoided in the case where V1's are the verbs, such as start, keep, stop, and begin, and allowed in the case where V1's are the verbs, such as enjoy, regret, avoid, and admit. It also shows that the adequate interpretation of a grammatical property in a corpus-based analysis can be guaranteed only when it should be based on the exact and strict observation of data. This paper also extends the issue of the avoidance of non-adjacent sequences of identical morphemes into the [Adj1-ly Adj2-ly] sequences, named doub-ly. Its result shows that the avoidance does not occur in every adverb ending with a suffix -ly and its occurrence is not structure-dependently determined but should be lexically specified. (Chung-Ang University)