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Areal Dimensions in Case Syncretism: Ablatives and Genitives [PDF]
, 2007 This paper has two broad, interlocking goals. First, it represents an initial attempt to survey the syncretistic relationships that markers of ablative and genitive relations enter into. Second, it attempts to determine if these syncretistic relationships have an areal profile.
Noonan, Michael, Mihas, Elena
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Person features and syncretism [PDF]
, 2013 Any theory of person features must account for known typological patterns (including the inventory of persons and generalizations about syncretism), but also provide a handle on the person morphology of individual languages.
Neeleman, Ad, Ackema, Peter
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Becoming Native-Like for Good or Ill: Online and Offline Processing of Case Forms in L2 Russian
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 One of the central questions in second language processing studies is whether native (L1) and second language (L2) readers process sentences relying on the same mechanisms or there are qualitative differences.
Natalia Cherepovskaia +3 more
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A Syntactic Interpretation of the Applicative-Causative Syncretism
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2019 This paper deals with the applicative-causative syncretism, which is a pattern of morpheme polysemy attested in many different natural languages. We basically interpret the causative-applicative syncretism as based on a shared syntactic configuration ...
Ludovico Franco
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Agreement and syncretism in Esahie [PDF]
, 2018 This paper investigates the inflectional system of the nominal domain in Esahie (Central-Tano, Kwa, Niger-Congo) by focusing on agreement and syncretism.
Broohm, Obed Nii, Rabanus, Stefan
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On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
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Unlocking the Ik instrumental case
Studies in African Linguistics, 2014 Ik, a Kuliak (Nilo-Saharan) language spoken by roughly 7000 people in northeastern Uganda, has up to now been described as having a case system with seven cases (König 2002, 2008).
Terrill Schrock
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Mismatches in free relatives – grafting nanosyntactic trees
Glossa, 2019 German free relative constructions allow for case requirement mismatches under two types of circumstances. The first is when the case required in the embedded clause is more complex (NOM < ACC < GEN < DAT) than the case required in the main ...
Fenna Bergsma
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Lability and the rigidification of word order: evidence from Early Middle English
Linguistics, 2023 This article analyzes quantitatively the effect of five linguistic features on the position of the object in Early Middle English. Four of them have long been explored in the literature: object type, object length, clause type and type of verbal cluster (
García García Luisa
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El-Fikr, 2021 The analysis entitled "Syncretism within the Ritual Cok Bakal and Its Relationship with Community Trust in Sungai Baung Village, Talang Ubi District, Pali Regency.
Krismiati Krismiati +2 more
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