New words may be consciously created from [...] fundamental elements on the analogy of old ones, but hardly new types of words. In the same way new sentences are being constantly created, but always on strictly traditional lines. - Sapir (1921), a pag.37 Analogy may not only refashion forms within the confines of a related cluster of forms (a ' paradigm ') but may extend its influence far beyond. - Sapir (1921), a pag.189 [...] analogy [...] regularizes irregularities that have come in the wake of phonetic processes but introduces disturbances, generally in favor of greater simplicity or regularity, in a long established system of forms. - Sapir (1921), a pag.189
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