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On Morphological Naturalness1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel
Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel
Affiliation:
Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR Zentralinstitut für Sprachwissenschaft 1100 Berlin, Prenslauer Promenade 149–152 DDR
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Abstract

The article presents in English, and in a condensed form, the central ideas of Wurzel (1984), a monograph devoted to an explication of the concept of naturalness in a theory of inflexional morphology. A set of theoretical distinctions and a set of principles (considered as universal tendencies) are formulated, which capture the naturalness criteria of inflexional morphology. Evidence for these principles, which are ranked according to applicational strength, is primarily drawn from data pertaining to linguistic change.

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Research Article
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , December 1984 , pp. 165 - 183
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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