Syncretism and Folk Arts

Circles of Tradition: Folk Arts in Minnesota

Inflectional Syncretism And Corpora

This paper describes a novel undertaking: comparing the relationship between grammatical ambiguity (syncretism) in nouns, as represented in a default inheritance hierarchy, with textual frequency distributions. In order to do this we consider a language with a reasonable number of grammatical distinctions and where syncretism occurs in different morphological classes. We investigated this relat...

Jewish Teenagers’ Syncretism

Nominative-Accusative Syncretism and Syntactic Case

Directionality and (un)natural Classes in Syncretism

Syncretism, where a single form corresponds to multiple morphosyntactic functions, is pervasive in languages with inflectional morphology. Its interpretation highlights the contrast between different views of the status of morphology. For some, morphology lacks independent structure, and syncretism reflects the internal structure of morphosyntactic features. For others, morphological structure ...