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 In the group of West Germanic dialects [...] we still have these four cases, but the phonetic form of the case syllables is already greatly reduced and in certain paradigms particular cases have coalesced. - Sapir (1921), a pag.164 The analogy of simpler and more numerously represented paradigms created the form 'fote' (compare, e.g., 'fisc' 'fish,' dative singular 'fisce'). - Sapir (1921), a pag.188
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