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This chapter focuses on the typological and language-specific characteristics of conversion and subtraction. After a brief discussion of the typological adequacy of subtraction, conversion is tackled (Section 5.1). The typological perspective in regard to conversion is primarily in relation to its bases in the two polar morphological types – the isolating and the inflecting-fusional, though examples from agglutinating languages are also considered. In Section 5.2, cases of conversion and subtraction are explained with language-specific features such as system-adequate stress-patterns, language-specific inflectional productivity, etc. Bulgarian, Russian and Serbo-Croatian belong to the Slavic family and possess nearly the same sets of morphemes, presupposing the same or at least similar morphological solutions. At times, however, the same semantic meaning may be expressed by different morphological techniques in the three languages. Such instances are also in the scope of the chapter.
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Although these Finnish instances differ from the English examples for which Kastovsky suggests ‘double duty’ stem forming elements (TMs are not terminal in English), Kastovsky’s analysis might make sense here.
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Manova, S. (2010). Typological and Language-Specific Adequacy of Conversion and Subtraction. In: Understanding Morphological Rules. Studies in Morphology, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9547-3_5
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