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'''Defective paradigm''' is the situation where some (regular) inflectional forms of a lexical category are missing in a number of words.

=== Example ===

Dutch has a class of compound verbs (such as ''wielrennen'' (lit. wheelrun) 'bicycling') of which only the infinitive (''wielrennen'') and the past participle (''gewielrend'') are used, while other inflected forms are hardly used (*''hij wielrent'' or *''hij rent wiel'' 'he is bicycling') . These compound verbs have a defective paradigm.

=== Link ===

[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Defective+paradigm&lemmacode=1060 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]

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