Russian Genitive Plurals are Impostors
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چکیده
(1) a. Inflectional paradigms aspire to “avoid homophony”. The Russian nominative singular and genitive plural endings reflect a transderivational attempt to minimize homophony across inflectional endings. b. Inflectional paradigms require transderivational reference: one cannot compute the Russian genitive plural without knowing what the nominative singular ending is. c. Markedness-based neutralization may not hold: the genitive plural ending in Russian, unlike other oblique plurals, shows distinct gender inflection.
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