The influence of prescriptivism on French verbal defectiveness
Words that speakers and dictionaries deem to be morphologically defective (and thus unacceptable) are often found in corpora, suggesting a disconnect between judgements about such words and usage of them. This paper explores the hypothesis that social and contextual factors may help explain why defe...
| Published in: | Linguistics |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2025-09-01
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2023-0028 |