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Person features and syncretism [PDF]

open access: yesNatural Language and Linguistic Theory, 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.
Adriaan Neeleman, Peter Ackema
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Syncretism

2012
Abstract This chapter surveys current theoretical approaches to the phenomenon of syncretism, that is, cases where morphology fails to mark a morphosyntactically relevant featural distinction. We first review arguments and evidence that the distinction between coincidental and systematic patterns of syncretism is linguistically relevant (
Brown, Dunstan
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Syncretism

Language and Linguistics Compass, 2006
Abstract Syncretism occurs where two or more distinct morphosyntactic values are collapsed in a single inflected word form. In the current literature, instances of syncretism are being increasingly cited to support particular models of morphology and feature structure.
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Case Syncretism

2012
AbstractCase syncretism refers to the combination of multiple distinct case values in a single form. Distinct case values are determined on a language-specific basis, so that case syncretism by this definition involves an observable asymmetry between paradigms within a language.
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When is a Syncretism more than a Syncretism?

2008
Abstract Syncretism occurs when different combinations of morphosyntactic feature values are represented by the same form. For instance, of the various forms of the past tense of the English verb to be, lsG and 3sc syncretize, and so do 2sc, I PL, 2PL and 3PL.
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Syncretisms

2017
The Conclusion to this volume returns to the three main questions posed in the Introduction, examining how a shared name, alongside material culture, can affect our understanding of ancient religious practices. The first section explores the benefits of a collaborative and comparative endeavour, drawing out examples from the earlier chapters and ...
Philippa Adrych   +4 more
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Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis

Journal of Religion in Africa, 1997
Simon Coleman   +2 more
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Voice Syncretism Crosslinguistically: The View from Minimalism

Philosophies, 2022
Despina Oikonomou, Artemis Alexiadou
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