"accidental gap" meaning in All languages combined

See accidental gap on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: accidental gaps [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} accidental gap (plural accidental gaps)
  1. (linguistics) A potential word, word sense, morpheme, or other form that does not exist in some language despite the fact that it would be permissible by the grammatical rules of that language. Wikipedia link: accidental gap Categories (topical): Linguistics Synonyms: lexical gap Hypernyms: gap, lacuna Related terms: pseudoword
    Sense id: en-accidental_gap-en-noun-XVxR6-PF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

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