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Article: Inflectional and/versus derivational morphology: clear-cut types or continua?(Linguistics)
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- Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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ABSTRACT
Some colleagues of younger generation may accuse me of being too faithful to traditionalism in observing linguistic phenomena. May I argue, frankly indeed, I do appreciate the contemporary modern computerising trends in collecting and analysing language data; yet I still believe in a peaceful meditation as a counter-balance to technical-like approaches, finding the results fairly efficient and, hopefully, significant enough for both theoretical and applied linguistics. One of my little ideas is to show that the traditionally as well as newly established categories, however much useful notions these may be, are not clear-cut ones but rather represent ...