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Thanks, Steve, you're obviously right. I was planning to read the Malkiel pieces myself more closely this evening - it's been a while since I've had the pleasure of reading anything by him. And yes, the 'knock of course' idea has much more of a Malkiel ring
to it. Still, he or whoever compiled what is called the 'selective index of key terms' must have thought of it as a distinct concept rather than a simple figure of speech.</div>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Histling-l] Deflexion query</font>
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<div> I checked Malkiel's use of deflection in my copy of "From Particular to General Linguistics". He is not using it in the sense of "loss of inflection". It is simply the noun accompanying the verb deflect 'to knock off course".</div>
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I was intrigued by your query and took a quick look at the indexes of some volumes to hand on my shelves. I found nothing in the immediately obvious places but then came across multiple references (with the spelling 'deflection') in the index of Yakov Malkiel
'From Particular to General Linguistics. Essays 1965-1978'. This a collection of his papers and the earliest that uses the term there is from 1968. He treats it as an ordinary term with no special attempt to define it so I guess it was current well before
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Greetings,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I’ve been trying to nail down the earliest use of ‘deflexion’/’deflection’ in reference to loss of inflection/inflectional categories. It is not a widely used term, but has been prominently
used in the early 2000s by Muriel Norde and then myself, for example. The earliest reference I have found is in Trask’s (2000)
<i>The dictionary of historical and comparative linguistics. </i>I would like to find out who first used this term, and would be grateful for any earlier references.</span></p>
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