Syncretism - where a single form serves two or more morphosyntactic
functions - is a persistent problem at the syntax-morphology
interface. It results from a 'mismatch', whereby the syntax of a
language makes a particular distinction, but the morphology does
not. This pioneering book provides the first full-length study of
inflectional syncretism, presenting a typology of its occurrence
across a wide range of languages. The implications of syncretism
for the syntax-morphology interface have long been recognised: it
argues either for an enriched model of feature structure (thereby
preserving a direct link between function and form), or for the
independence of morphological structure from syntactic structure.
The Syntax-Morphology Interface argues for the autonomy of
morphology, and the resulting analysis is illustrated in a series
of formal case studies within network morphology. It will be
welcomed by all linguists interested in the relation between words
and the larger units of which they are a part.
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