61_[9783110377675 - The Lexical Typology of Semantic Shifts] 17. Motivation.pdf
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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De Gruyter
2020
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