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Re: PLUG: SpecGram Current Issue

From:<morphemeaddict@...>
Date:Saturday, March 3, 2007, 8:08
In a message dated 3/3/2007 12:02:49 AM Central Standard Time, 
rakko@CHARTER.NET writes:


> The second question one is forced to ask is, even though it would be > utterly bizarre to have an empty cell in a paradigm, is it the case > that, perhaps, the elative dual forms are simply separate lexemes, as
> unrelated as “car” and “pickle”?
>
If I understand correctly, all the cells belong to the same lexeme, by definition. The actual form of the contents of the cell may differ completely, such as the English forms "go" vs. "went". Same lexeme, which also includes "goes", "gone", and "going". stevo