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In this paper we bring evidence to the effect that asymmetries arebasic in the interpretation of the different sorts of objects generated bythe grammar. We focus on the properties of morphological configurations, inparticular the restrictions imposed on their derivations in order to showthat they follow from our hypothesis. We discuss the properties of morphologicalparadigms, in particular the restrictions imposed on their actual membersand their combination with roots in order to show that their properties areaccounted for in terms of asymmetrical relations.
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Di Sciullo, AM. Asymmetries: Consequences for morphological configurations and paradigms. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 47, 81–101 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014058313985
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