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By Andrea Sims

Paradigmatic gaps ('missing' inflected varieties) have typically been thought of to be the random detritus of a language's historical past and marginal exceptions to the traditional functioning of its inflectional process. Arguing that this can be a misperception, Inflectional Defectiveness demonstrates that paradigmatic gaps are in truth common and anticipated items of inflectional constitution. Sims bargains an available exploration of the way and why inflectional defectiveness arises, why it persists, and the way it really is discovered. The ebook offers a thought of morphology that's rooted within the implicative constitution of the paradigm. This systematic exploration of the subject additionally addresses questions of inflection classification association, the morphology-syntax interface, the constitution of the lexicon, and the character of productiveness. providing a singular synthesis of verified examine and new empirical info, this paintings is critical for researchers and graduate scholars in all fields of linguistics.

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