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Plank (1991) begins with the observation that “[t]he earliest extant grammatical texts are paradigms” (p. 161). The long linguistic and philological traditions have established a wealth of knowledge about the properties of paradigms, notably regarding the issue of syncretism, but one fundamental question has not been definitively answered, namely (1):
(1) Does knowledge of language (grammar) include knowledge (memorization) of paradigms themselves or just of the pieces that constitute paradigms and rules for generating them?
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Bobaljik, J.D. (2002). Syncretism without paradigms: Remarks on Williams 1981, 1994. In: Booij, G., Van Marle, J. (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 2001. Yearbook of Morphology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3726-5_2
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