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| − | E.g. English ''bet'' (in ''I bet you ten pounds'') is syncretic between Present and Past, as seen in comparison with I give/gave you ten pounds. | + | E.g. [[English]] ''bet'' (in ''I bet you ten pounds'') is syncretic between Present and Past, as seen in comparison with I give/gave you ten pounds. |
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| + | In [[Ancient Greek]], the nominative and vocative of the feminine singular/plural case forms are identical (e.g. ''khóoraa'' 'a land', ''khôoraa'' 'O, land', ''khôoray'' 'lands', ''khôoray'' 'O, lands'). The same is true for the nominative and accusative of the neuter singular/plural case forms: ''dôoron'' 'house-nom./acc.sg.', ''dôora'' 'house-nom./acc.pl.'. | ||
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[http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/ Syncretism database] of the [[Surrey Morphology Group]] | [http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/ Syncretism database] of the [[Surrey Morphology Group]] | ||
| + | [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Syncretism&lemmacode=306 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics] | ||
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===References=== | ===References=== | ||
Revision as of 16:34, 9 June 2009
Syncretism is the situation where one morphological form corresponds to two or more morphosyntactic descriptions.
Examples
E.g. English bet (in I bet you ten pounds) is syncretic between Present and Past, as seen in comparison with I give/gave you ten pounds.
In Ancient Greek, the nominative and vocative of the feminine singular/plural case forms are identical (e.g. khóoraa 'a land', khôoraa 'O, land', khôoray 'lands', khôoray 'O, lands'). The same is true for the nominative and accusative of the neuter singular/plural case forms: dôoron 'house-nom./acc.sg.', dôora 'house-nom./acc.pl.'.
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Origin
The term has originally been used in the sense of "combining different religions", and was transferred to linguistics in the 19th century.
Links
Syncretism database of the Surrey Morphology Group Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics
References
- Baerman, Matthew & Brown, Dunstan & Corbett, Greville G. 2005. The syntax-morphology interface: A study of syncretism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Other languages
- German Synkretismus
- Russian синкретизм
