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Canonical and non-canonical conversion in Baltic

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Conversion is best known from languages like English where nouns may be used as verbs and vice versa without any formal marking, e.g., email (n) – email (v), walk (v) – walk (n). Such pairs can be interpreted either as instances of derivation without overt affixation or as cases of lexical multifunctionality. I pose the question of whether the […]

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