DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmaclosed class
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaBeard (2004)
TitoloON THE SEPARATION OF DERIVATION FROM MORPHOLOGY. Toward a lexeme/morpheme-based morphology
Sinonimi 
Rinviiopen class (inglese) 
Traduzioni 
Citazioni

An "open" class may be defined here as "syncronically accessible", i.e. a class susceptible to extensions by synchronic operations and borrowings. A "closed" such class would be "synchronically inaccessible" in the same sense.
- Beard (2004), Pag. 509