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  • Inflection Classes, Gender, and the Principle of Contrast

  • Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 70 / Issue 4 / December 1994
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. 737-788

  • Clark's 1987 Principle of Contrast (‘Every two forms contrast in meaning’) seems inconsistent with the widespread synonymy exhibited by inflectional affixes in languages with inflection classes. But if inflection class membership is counted as part of the ‘meaning’ of an inflectional affix under tight conditions—namely if it unambiguously identifies the inflection class of the lexemes to which it attaches—then inflectional affixation is found to comply with the Principle of Contrast after all. A version of the principle extends to covert gender systems too, although apparently not to overt gender systems. Far- reaching implications for morphological theory and grammatical change are suggested. Evidence is drawn in particular from English, German, Icelandic, Latin, Rumanian, Amo, Archi, Andi, Zulu, Georgian, and Afrikaans.

  • LAN volume 86 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 86 / Issue 2 / June 2010
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. b1-b2
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  • Semantics and Pragmatics of English Verbal Dependent Coordination

  • Neal Whitman
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 80 / Issue 3 / September 2004
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    19 February 2026, pp. 403-434

  • This article investigates coordination of verbal adjuncts and complements in English, considering coordinations of adjunct with adjunct, complement with complement, and adjunct with complement, for both non-wH and WH elements, using the conjunctions or, and, and but. Previous analyses have never to my knowledge covered all of these cases. It is shown that syntactic or (compositional) semantic constraints on coordination fail to cover all the facts, as do ambiguity-based explanations. Better (though still incomplete) coverage is provided by an analysis based on event semantics and neo-Gricean conversational implicature.

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