| Lemma | morphological drift |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | analogy (inglese) form (inglese) language (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | [...] it took German at least three hundred years to catch up with a phonetic- morphological drift that had long been under way in English. [...] analogy not only regularizes irregularities [...] but introduces disturbances, generally in favor of greater simplicity or regularity, in a long established system of forms. These analogical adjustments are practically always symptoms of the general morphological drift of the language. |