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This contribution deals with the question what it means from a linguistic point of view to claim that poetic texts are characterized by deviation. It will be argued that peculiarities of word order conform to the readers’ expectations and, therefore, should be considered inconspicuous instead of deviant. By contrast, true syntactic deviation often  consists of some isolated violation of argument structure. Moreover, comparison with examples of morphological creativity shows that each grammatical level requires its own specific description of rules and patterns, hence of deviation.

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