paradigm leveling

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Noun

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paradigm leveling (countable and uncountable, plural paradigm levelings)

  1. (linguistics, linguistic morphology) Regularisation of a paradigm, alignment of irregular forms on regular forms; replacement of irregular forms by regular forms in an inflection.
    Synonyms: analogical leveling, morphological leveling

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