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Learning What Cannot Be by Failing Expectations

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JohanssonC.1999. Learning What Cannot Be by Failing Expectations. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 22, 61–76.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2010

Christer Johansson
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Department of Linguistics, University of Groningen, Faculteit der Letteren, P.O. Box 716, NL-9700 AS Groningen, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected]/[email protected]
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Abstract

This article presents an explanation for the lack of some neuter gender forms in an otherwise productive paradigm for the formation of neuter gender adjectives. The explanation draws on a proper understanding of (exemplar-based) analogy under some conditions. One condition is that the problematic form resembles a free morpheme by the loss of a morpheme/syllable boundary in its derivation. The second condition is that the problematic forms tend to share some property (for example, referring to a nonverifiable property such as internal (mental) states). Problematic forms might thus mutually support other such forms by analogy and similarity, and thus create a paradigmatic gap. It is argued that exemplars (with context), and analogy between similar exemplars, necessarily restrict and licence the use of derived forms.

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