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Extravagant Morphology: Studies in rule-bending, pattern-extending and theory-challenging morphology
Edited by Matthias Eitelmann and Dagmar Haumann
[Studies in Language Companion Series 223] 2022
► pp. 1–18

Extravagance in morphology

Introduction

| University of Mainz
| University of Bergen
Article outline
  • 1.On the notion of extravagance
  • 2.Morphological extravagance in three respects
  • 3.The extravagant phenomena studied in this volume
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 16 March 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.223.01eit
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