@article{jbp:/content/journals/10.1075/sl.12.2.02myh, author = "Myhill, John", title = "Categoriality and Clustering", journal= "Studies in Language. International Journal sponsored by the Foundation “Foundations of Language”", year = "1988", volume = "12", number = "2", pages = "261-297", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.12.2.02myh", url = "https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/sl.12.2.02myh", publisher = "John Benjamins", issn = "0378-4177", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "The essential meaning of a clause is typically conveyed by a small subset of the-morphemes in that clause, sometimes by only one or two; the information conveyed by the other morphemes is supplementary or already known. Clauses consist of one or more clusters; a cluster is made up of a nucleus (a single morpheme conveying information of central importance to the clause) and any number of satellites (bound morphemes or independent words conveying more peripheral information). Positing such a pragmatic structure for clauses makes it possible to give a unified explanation for apparently diverse morphological and syntactic phenomena in a number of languages.", }