How to Live Naturally and not be Bothered by Economy

Gaeta, Livio

doi:10.1515/flin.40.1part2.7

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“… naturalness of other components interfere, as is recognised within the NM framework; for example, morphological naturalness can be constrained by phonological naturalness (Wurzel 1984, 1994a), or by optimal word‐length (Dressler 1985) autonomous structural organisation principles interfere (Maiden 1992, 1996) extra‐linguistic factors can interfere (Wurzel 1994a) grammaticalisation can interfere (Gaeta 2006) language‐specific normality can interfere; Wurzel (1984) argues that system‐dependent naturalness will block general naturalness areal‐linguistic factors can interfere. At least some grammatical categories such as gender and middle voice have a clear geographical distribution, so their origin may have to do with areal‐linguistic factors (cf.…”

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The No Blur Principle meets Norwegian dialects*

Enger

2007

Studia Linguistica

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The No Blur Principle (NBP) is confronted with developments in Norwegian dialects. The NBP helps us explain why the suffixes of the most productive class do not become Ôsuper-stableÕ: that would have entailed a violation of the NBP. If affixes associated with the most productive class have become super-stable, something has been done with other suffixes, so the NBP is complied with, by and large. The NBP did not have to ÔbiteÕ, for the suffix distribution is partly extra-morphologically motivated. This indicates a Ôbelts-and-bracesÕ strategy to ensure inflectional distinctness. The paper also presents arguments in favour of Natural Morphology.

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“…13 13 This question is extensively debated in the literature. Frequency comes first according to Bybee (1985), Nübling (2000), Fertig (1998), Harnisch (1988) and Haspelmath (2006); frequency is not primary according to Wurzel (1984, 1990) and Gaeta (2006), among others. …”

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