Defective Paradigms by Matthew Baerman

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This is the first volume devoted to the theory and typology of gaps in inflectional paradigms. Such gaps have been recognised since the days of Classical grammarians, but they remain poorly understood. This volume addresses these issues from historical, statistical and theoretical approaches, and by using studies from a range of languages.

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Defective Paradigms by Matthew Baerman

This is the first volume devoted to the theory and typology of gaps in inflectional paradigms. Such gaps have been recognised since the days of Classical grammarians, but they remain poorly understood. This volume addresses these issues from historical, statistical and theoretical approaches, and by using studies from a range of languages.
The descriptive content of this volume alone will be of great interest to morphologists* Linguist List *

Dr Dunstan Brown, Editor, British, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Surrey
Dr Andrew Hippisley, Editor, British/American, Lecturer in Computing, University of Surrey
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ISBN 13 9780197264607
ISBN 10 0197264603
Title Defective Paradigms
Author Matthew Baerman
Series Proceedings Of The British Academy
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 2010-05-20
Number of pages 230
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