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How much of the irregularity caused by sound change (e.g. vowel loss) will be retained in inflectional paradigms?
The way I put it in historical linguistics classes is:
Sound laws are entirely regular, and create irregularity
Analogy is entirely irregular, and creates regularity
In other words, neogrammarian-...
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How much of the irregularity caused by sound change (e.g. vowel loss) will be retained in inflectional paradigms?
Define "huge amount". Let's say this is for verb conjugation (maybe it's avtually for nouns; you didn't specify). If there's some commonality - e.g. vowel syncope as you mention - among ...
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