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The spread of morphological redundancies in the Crow language

What is it about?

Morphological redundancies in Crow are characterized by morphemes encoding a given piece of information (redundantly) occurring multiple times within a single word. I show how these redundancies were developed in Crow and then spread into other domains.

Why is it important?

Redundancies in language are often thought to violate communicative economy in which information is conveyed with the least effort. The spread of redundancies in Crow is an example that shows that communicative economy is not the primary means by which grammar is shaped.

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