linguistic association whereby all pairings of individual terms can be explained. This is the subject of chapter 4. In summary, I have shown, first of all, that members of different word classes can be paired, and, furthermore, within a word class, all of the major morphological features can be contrasted: one tense with another, one gender with another, and so on. So far, Jakobson’s dictum that “pervasive parallelism inevitably activates all the levels of language … the morphologic and syntactic