Morphological change Stephen
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When we talk about phonological change, it is reasonably clear what we mean, but the scope of morphological change is less obvious, and depends heavily on the scope of what we take to be ‘morphology’. This is because characteristics and effects of the structure of words are somewhat more ‘metastasised’ in grammatical structure, interrelated with sound structure, syntax and meaning. For concreteness’ sake, I adopt here a view of the type characterised as Inferential and Realisational in the useful typology of theories introduced by Stump (2001), although this is not essential. On this view, the morphology of a language involves several components, including those in (1).
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