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Productivity and exponence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

James P. Blevins
Affiliation:
Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QA, England jpb39@cam.ac.uk www.rceal.cam.ac.uk/jblevins
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Abstract

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The experimental results reported in Clahsen's target article clearly distinguish regular from irregular processes and suggest a basic difference between items that are productively formed and items which are stored in the lexicon. However, these results do not directly implicate any particular combinatory operation (such as affixation), nor do they distinguish inflectional items from other productive formations.

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© 1999 Cambridge University Press