Lexical nonsense and morphological sense: On the real importance of 'folk etymology' and related phenomena for historical linguists

Maiden, Martin

doi:10.1075/la.113.12mai

In:Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal papers
Edited by Thórhallur Eythórsson
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 113] 2008
► pp. 307–328

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Lexical nonsense and morphological sense: On the real importance of 'folk etymology' and related phenomena for historical linguists

Martin Maiden

Published online: 6 March 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.113.12mai

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