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Case matching and syncretism in ATB‐dependencies [PDF]

Studia Linguistica, 2019
Abstract Syncretism has been reported to have the peculiar property of repairing violations of syntactic constraints, e.g. with agreement (Schütze 2003, Bhatt & Walkow 2013) and case matching (Citko 2005, van Craenenbroeck 2012).
Johannes Hein, Andrew Murphy
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DOM and dative case

Glossa, 2018
In some languages with DOM, the exponents of DOM and dative are homophonous, e.g. in Spanish and Hindi. I argue that this pattern is not due to DOM objects and indirect objects being represented identically in syntax, but due to syncretism between ...
András Bárány
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Deconstructing Voice. The syntax and semantics of u-syncretism in Spanish

Glossa, 2020
This paper focuses on a well-known pattern of systematic syncretism in Spanish se constructions. Detailed syntactic and semantic analyses are provided with the aim of sustaining two main theses. First, I conceive of se as a probe for A-movement.
Andrés Saab
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The analysis of animacy in the Dovolja monastery gospel [PDF]

Baština
The grammatical category of animacy in contemporary Serbian language is a formal syncretism in accusative and genitive cases of the masculine forms of words with declension denominating living beings. Contrary to the acc. = gen.
Jevtović Natalija R.
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A further argument for a syncretic analysis of DOM and dative in Spanish

Topics in Linguistics, 2020
This paper offers an argument to analyse the Spanish form /a/ as a syncretic case marker for accusative differential object marking (dom) and dative. The literature on free relative clauses has established that syncretism allows the repair of feature ...
Pérez Carlos Muñoz
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Religious Syncretism as a New Model for Interreligious Harmony: A Study of Tridharma in Indonesia [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology
The government policy of the New Order era (1966-1998), which required uniformity in religious practices and had implications for the emergence of the Tridharma house of worship, significantly affected the religious practices of the Chinese community in ...
Irwansyah, Moh Soehadha, M Muji Buddin SM   +2 more
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The phonological basis of Latin case patterns

Topics in Linguistics, 2014
This study focuses on accounting for allomorphy in Latin case/number inflection. It attributes essentially all of it to the influence of adjacent features of standard segmental phonology on morphemes expressing case assignment.
Emonds Joseph Embley
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Monotonicity as an effective theory of morphosyntactic variation

Journal of Language Modelling, 2019
One of the major goals of linguistics is to delineate the possible range of variation across languages. Recent work has identified a surprising number of typological gaps in a variety domains.
Thomas Graf
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Nicht-phonologisch konditionierter Wandel in der Kasusmorphologie isolierter germanischer Varietäten.

Linguistik Online, 2019
This article deals with structure and change of the nominal case systems of two isolated Germanic varieties, Visperterminen Alemannic (Valais, Switzerland) and Övdalian (Älvdal, Sweden).
Raffaela Baechler, Simon Pröll
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The Role of Syncretism in the Morphology of the Finnic Languages [PDF]

, 2010
Syncretism and the overlapping of morphologi- cally distinct units or entire categories have different influences on morphosyntactically cumulative and less cumulative forms.
Grünthal, Riho
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