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Prinzipien der Irregularisierung (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2011 ed.)
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Prinzipien der Irregularisierung (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2011 ed.)
Series: Linguistische Arbeiten, 415
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It has been customary to regard morphological irregularity as an
accident of language change and accordingly its eventual
disappearance as only a matter of time. This study undertakes a
fundamental re-evaluation of that assumption. On the basis of a
contrastive analysis of ten highly frequent verbs in ten Germanic
languages it shows that irregularity is in fact consistently
generated in an astonishingly systematic way. In the course of the
discussion it transpires that irregularity and brevity of
expression are closely associated. The detailed description of
irregularity principles is followed by a theoretical section. Here,
the negative concept of irregularity is replaced by that of
differentiation, which is shown to have a positive function in
connection with high token frequency because it allows for formal
brevity without any risk of syncretism. Against this background
total suppletion represents the ideal combination of maximal
differentiation and brevity of expression.
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