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Do affixes have meaning? Polarity in the Toten dialect of Norwegian meets morphological theory

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Yearbook of Morphology 2005

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This paper is dedicated to Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Thanks to audiences in Oslo, Tromsø, Stavanger and Vienna, and to T. Trosterud, who first brought the problem to my attention. For comments on previous versions, particular thanks to A. Carstairs-McCarthy, J.T. Faarlund, T. Kinn, T. Nesset, A. Spencer, A. Torp, and to three very constructive referees.

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Enger, HO. (2005). Do affixes have meaning? Polarity in the Toten dialect of Norwegian meets morphological theory. In: Booij, G., Van Marle, J. (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 2005. Yearbook of Morphology. Springer, Dordrecht . https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4066-0_2

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