Abstract
Abstract. The No Blur Principle (NBP) is confronted with developments in Norwegian dialects. The NBP helps us explain why the suffixes of the most productive class do not become ‘super‐stable’: that would have entailed a violation of the NBP. If affixes associated with the most productive class have become super‐stable, something has been done with other suffixes, so the NBP is complied with, by and large. The NBP did not have to ‘bite’, for the suffix distribution is partly extra‐morphologically motivated. This indicates a ‘belts‐and‐braces’ strategy to ensure inflectional distinctness. The paper also presents arguments in favour of Natural Morphology.
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