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F. Plank (frans.plank@uni-konstanz.de), The Direction of Derivation 1 Nov 07<br />

How is the direction of derivation determined? Is it predictable?<br />

Given a semantic opposition encoded through derivational categories,<br />

is the direction of derivation predictable<br />

• for all languages alike,<br />

unconditionally or also perhaps depending on other<br />

typological parameters?<br />

• for each particular language (i.e., with languages<br />

randomly differing from one another)?<br />

optimistic answer: Yes!<br />

Since it is obviously semantic complexity which is the<br />

determinant (Is it?), directions are predictable and will<br />

be universally the same for any categorial opposition.<br />

pessimistic answer: It’s not predictable, neither universally nor languageparticularly,<br />

but has to be determined lexeme by lexeme,<br />

language by language.<br />

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