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Defective Paradigms: Missing Forms and What They Tell Us (Proceedings of the British Academy)
Defective Paradigms Missing Forms and What They Tell Us - Proceedings of the British Academy
Author: Matthew Baerman, Greville G. Corbett, Dunstan Brown
An important design feature of language is the use of productive patterns in inflection. In English, we have pairs such as 'enjoy' ~ 'enjoyed', 'agree' ~ 'agreed', and many others. On the basis of this productive pattern, if we meet a new verb 'transduce' we know that there will be the form 'transduced'. Even if the pattern is not fully regular,...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780197264607
ISBN-10: 0197264603
Publication Date: 7/22/2010
Pages: 200
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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