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Vocabular Clarity meets Faroese noun declensions by Hans-Olav Enger is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Vocabular Clarity meets Faroese noun declensions about?
The No Blur Principle (NBP) or Vocabulary Clarity (VC) approach (Carstairs-McCarthy 1994, 2010) is a possible restriction on the behaviour of inflectional affixes (grammatical units), originally motivated by an analogy with words (lexical units). The restriction is grounded in synonymy avoidance, in the observation that "Every two forms contrast in meaning" (Clark 1993) and in behaviour in multivocabular situations, where speakers have more than one vocabulary although they have only one grammar (e.g. Dyirbal, Javanese). There have not been many suggestions for restrictions on the behaviour of affixes in the morphological literature, so the approach deserves attention. In this article, the NBP or VC-approach is applied to Faroese noun declensions. While these Faroese data seem problematic at first, it is argued that they can be perfectly accommodated within the NBP/ VC-aproach.
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- Author
- Hans-Olav Enger
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- CA
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)