A new contribution to linguistic theory, this book presents a formal framework for the analysis of word structure in human language. It sets forth the network o

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Proto-Slavic, the reconstructed ancestor of the Slavic languages, presents a rich inflectional system inherited from Proto-Indo-European. In this handbook all t

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A lively introduction to the study of how words are put together.