Productive syncretism in Saami inflectional morphology

Hansson, Gunnar Ólafur

doi:10.1075/cilt.288.05han

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“…The syncretism of second and third person in the plural found in the preterite, likewise an example of regular sound change, seems also to have been partially extended to the present, being restricted to the negative paradigm (Kettunen 1938:LXI) 3 . See Hansson (forthcoming) for a similar but more complex change in the case system of Saami.…”

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Syncretism

Baerman¹

2007

Language and Linguist. Compass

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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. This article takes a critical look at the sorts of analyses that the data actually warrant, in particular showing the limitations of an approach that treats syncretism as dependent on morphosyntactic feature structure. Matthew Baerman

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