Q: term

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

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Larry Trask <larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk> wrote:
 
>I'm looking for a term.  The phenomenon in question is extremely
>familiar, but I don't know of an accepted name for it.
>
>The phenomenon is this: a linguistic change which simplifies one
>subsystem of a language may complicate another subsystem.
 
In the tradition of Ablaut and Lautgesetz, why not "Schlimmbesserung"?
 
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl
Amsterdam