Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
The complexity of syncretism patterns in inflectional class systems. |
| Authors: |
Herce, Borja1 (AUTHOR) borjaherce@gmail.com |
| Source: |
Linguistics. Jul2026, p1. 38p. 5 Illustrations. |
| Subject Terms: |
*Inflection (Grammar), *Morphology (Grammar), *Taxonomy, *Paradigm (Linguistics), *Linguistic typology |
| Abstract: |
While the morphological phenomena of syncretism and inflection classes have been extensively studied separately, their interaction remains underexplored. Here I present a typology, and a cross-linguistic exploration, of the diversity of morphological syncretism patterns and their complexity in inflectional paradigms. I propose several easy-to-obtain measures of syncretism complexity and I analyze a sample of both related and unrelated inflectional systems to find out about two seemingly incompatible types of syncretism complexity in the world’s languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Database: |
Academic Search Index |