Defective Paradigms: Missing Forms and What They Tell Us by Dunstan Brown, Matthew Baerman, Greville G. Corbett

Defective Paradigms: Missing Forms and What They Tell Us

Proceedings of the British Academy

Dunstan Brown, Matthew Baerman, Greville G. Corbett

216 pages missing pub info (editions)

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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 'transd...

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