Thread: -ic vs. -ical
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Old 28-Aug-2007, 07:29
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Default Re: -ic vs. -ical
Beside diachronic analysis, could it also be, at least partly, an example of iconicity? The -ical ones seems having a faint tendency of being more abstract than the -ic ones.
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