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Why collapse morphological concepts?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

Wolfgang U. Dressler
Affiliation:
Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien, A-1090 Wien, [email protected]

Abstract

Clahsen's conception of inflectional rules – as being not only regular, but simultaneously only concatenative (combinatorial), general and productive, representing the default, not occurring in interfixation within German compounds, and identical to the first rules to be acquired in first-language acquisition – involves an unwarranted collapsing of morphological concepts.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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