Inflectional and lexical morphology : a linguistic continuum
Part of : Γλωσσολογία ; Vol.1, 1982, pages 27-55
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Lexical and inflectional morphology form a scaled continuum with respect to grammaticalization. Examination of the principal linguistic categories pertaining to the major lexical classes of nouns, adjectives, and verbs shows that languages differ in the degree to which they grammaticalize such categories and that within one and the same language 'inflectional' phenomena do indeed occupy quite different positions on the scale of grammaticalization and may even fade into the lexical domain. Continuous linguistic phenomena can only be adequately described if their differential behavior on a set of parameters is taken into consideration.
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