Defective Paradigms: Missing Forms . . .
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| Originally published | May 20, 2010 |
| Editors | Dunstan Brown |
| Greville G Corbett | |
| Matthew Baerman | |
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| ID | 2087990 |
About Defective Paradigms: Missing Forms . . .
An important design feature of language is the use of productive patterns in inflection. In English, we have pairs such as 'enjoy' ~ 'enjoyed', 'agree' ~ 'agreed', and many others. On the basis of this productive pattern, if we meet a new verb 'transduce' we know that there will be the form 'transduced'. . . .