Chapter 17 Motivation by formally analyzable terms in a typological perspective : An assessment of the variation and steps towards explanation
This article tackles a question raised by one of the founding figures of lexical typology, Stephen Ullmann: to what degree do languages differ in the extent to which they resort to morphologically analyzable lexical items? Drawing on a worldwide sample of 78 languages for which a standard set of 160...
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2016
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