Abstract
The paper tries to demonstrate how it is possible to gain evidencefor the detailed structure of grammatical systems by investigating languagechange. The decisive methodological question is: How must a system be structuredso that a certain change can take place? The paper presents several morphologicalchanges from the history of Germanic languages, on the basis of which someimportant questions concerning the structure of morphological lexicon representationscan be answered in a justified manner. Altogether, it is intended to contributeto the defeat of the fruitless strict separation of synchrony from diachronyin linguistics.
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