Accidental gap
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accidental-gap-218-2906221
title:
Accidental gap
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In linguistics an accidental gap, also known as a gap, paradigm gap, accidental lexical gap, lexical gap, lacuna, or hole in the pattern, is a potential word, word sense, morpheme, or other form that does not exist in some language despite being theoretically permissible by the grammatical rules of that language. For example, a word pronounced is theoretically possible in English, as it would obey English word-formation rules, but does not currently exist. Its absence is therefore an accidental
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encyclopedia
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A permissible word or form that does not exist
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_gap
date created:
2011-02-12T03:05:46Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T12:42:55Z
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