CAHA, Pavel. Syncretism as Merge F. In 2019 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 03, 2019,. 2019.
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Original name Syncretism as Merge F
Authors CAHA, Pavel (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition 2019 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 03, 2019, 2019.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study 60203 Linguistics
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/19:00107230
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English syncretism; case; Icelandic; dative; Saami; genitive
Tags rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Igor Hlaváč, učo 342491. Changed: 24/3/2020 09:44.
Abstract
In the talk, I summarise the research program followed in Caha (2009), whose main goal is to show how we can understand paradigms (with relations of syncretism and containment) as nothing but a surface reflex of the fundamental operation Merge F. I review some of the problems pointed out in the subsequent literature concerning the syncretism of datives (Hardarson 2016) and present a solution to these problems proposed in Starke (2017). The solution consists in enriching the original case hierarchy with a new type of a dative and a new type of an accusative case. Starting from there, I note a curious possibility made available by Starkes solution, which allows for the existence of a language with a surface case hierarchy nom—gen—acc—dat—etc. I argue that this surface hierarchy is attested in several Saami languages.
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GA17-10144S, research and development projectName: Lineární kontiguita v jazyce
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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