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Is the Paradigm Economy Principle relevant?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Martti Nyman
Martti Nyman
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Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki
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This paper is meant as a contribution to historical morphology, although it takes the form of a critique. What will be criticized is a particular proposal, made by Carstairs (especially, 1984b), to look upon PARADIGM MIXTURE as a cause of morphological change. An issue not unrelated to this proposal is the use of PARADIGM ECONOMY (Carstairs, 1983) as a teleological principle in accounting for morphological change. We will show that paradigm economy is likely to be irrelevant to historical linguistics.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , September 1987 , pp. 251 - 267
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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