Syncretism - Recurring patterns
Johannes Hein, Philipp Weisser
December 2021 

In this paper we present and discuss different patterns of syncretism, understood to be morphological markers that have a common form but serve different functions. Our delineation of different syncretisms will largely be based on the theoretical concepts that have been employed to describe them. In this vein, we distinguish elsewhere syncretisms, natural class syncretisms based on cross-classification and sub-classification, directional syncretisms and morphomic syncretisms. The paper concludes with a discussion of the broader impact that the research on syncretism has on the architecture of grammar.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/006677 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	to appear in: Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Morphology
keywords:	syncretism, underspecification, feature decomposition, morphome, elsewhere, natural classes, morphology
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