| Lemma | form class |
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| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Nida (1949) |
| Titolo | Morphology. The descriptive analysis of words |
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| Citazioni | The existence of fluctuations in forms means that certain structures are winning out over others, for alternative forms never stay in equilibrium for long. Our descriptions of languages tend to give the impression that they are static, fixed structures. This is, of course, the attitude of the average speaker of a language, and yet we do realize that there are (1) fluctuations of forms, e.g. 'roofs' vs. 'rooves', 'hoofs' vs. 'hooves', 'proven' vs. 'proved', and 'dove' vs. 'dived' [...] |