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Pleonasm and hypercharacterisation

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I thank Giorgio Banti, Dagmar Haumann, Johannes Helmbrecht, Nils Jahn, Yoko Nishina, Su-Rin Ryu and two anonymous reviewers of the Yearbook of Morphology for helpful comments on the first draft and for a couple of examples.

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Lehmann, C. (2005). Pleonasm and hypercharacterisation. In: Booij, G., Van Marle, J. (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 2005. Yearbook of Morphology. Springer, Dordrecht . https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4066-0_5

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