Motivating a Morphome
This paper discusses case syncretism patterns in Albanian, arguing for an underlyingly syntactic (i.e. functional) motivation for seemingly ʻmorphomicʼ (i.e. purely formal) metasyncretism patterns in its nominal inflection. It is argued that the distribution of syncretized and non-syncretized for...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
2023-01-01
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Series: | Balcania et Slavia |
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Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.30687/BES/2785-3187/2023/02/001 |