Deconstructing (ir)regularity.
Regularity and irregularity are among the most widely invoked notions in linguistics. The terms are backed up by a long and venerable tradition, and yet (or maybe therefore) different disciplines and authors seem to be using them for very different phenomena and in very different ways. The most freq...
| Publicado en: | Studies in Language Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 44 - 92 |
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John Benjamins Publishing Co.
2019
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