
Language System and Its Change
Jadranka Gvozdanovic
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A Study of Syncretism
by Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett
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Syncretism--where a single form serves two or more morphosyntactic functions--is a persistent problem at the syntax-morphology interface. It results from a 'mismatch', whereby the syntax of a language makes a particular distinction, but the morphology does not. This pioneering book provides the first full-length study of inflectional syncretism, presenting a typology of its occurrence across a wide range of languages.
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