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<p>This is a standard term in Dutch linguistics, which might explain why Muriel used it. You will find it in most if not all Dutch historical reference grammars.
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 19, 2021 9:27 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Histling-l] Deflexion query</font>
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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 class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; 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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