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- Inflectional Defectiveness
- Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
- Inflectional Defectiveness
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Glossary
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Defining inflectional defectiveness
- 3 On the causes of inflectional defectiveness
- 4 Productivity, defectiveness, and syncretism
- 5 Principal parts, predictability, and paradigmatic gaps
- 6 Irreducible gaps and the morphologization of defectiveness
- 7 On learnability and the dynamic organization of the lexicon
- 8 The implicative structure of the paradigm and other concluding thoughts
- Book part
- References
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015
- Inflectional Defectiveness
- Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
- Inflectional Defectiveness
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Glossary
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Defining inflectional defectiveness
- 3 On the causes of inflectional defectiveness
- 4 Productivity, defectiveness, and syncretism
- 5 Principal parts, predictability, and paradigmatic gaps
- 6 Irreducible gaps and the morphologization of defectiveness
- 7 On learnability and the dynamic organization of the lexicon
- 8 The implicative structure of the paradigm and other concluding thoughts
- Book part
- References
- Index
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- Inflectional Defectiveness , pp. 302 - 309Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015