Syncretism as Merge F

CAHA, Pavel. Syncretism as Merge F. In 2019 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 03, 2019,. 2019.

Basic information

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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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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URL URL

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

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Abstract

V originále

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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Links

GA17-10144S, research and development project

Name: Lineární kontiguita v jazyce Investor: Czech Science Foundation