naa a22 4500 510742475 CHVBK 20180411083033.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11525-013-9224-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11525-013-9224-6 Müller Gereon Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany aut A radically non-morphemic approach to bidirectional syncretism [Elektronische Daten] [Gereon Müller] This paper addresses the question of how certain kinds of overlapping syncretisms in inflectional paradigms can be accounted for that Baerman etal. (Language 80:807-824, 2005) refer to as convergent/divergent bidirectional syncretisms (based on earlier work by Stump, Inflectional morphology, 2001). Bidirectional syncretism strongly resists accounts in terms of standard rules of exponence (or similar devices) that correlate inflection markers with (often underspecified) morpho-syntactic specifications (such rules are used in many morphological theories; e.g., Anderson, A-morphous morphology, 1992; Halle and Marantz in The view from building, pp.111-176, 1993; Aronoff, Morphology by itself, 1994; Wunderlich in Yearbook of morphology 1995, pp.93-114, 1996; and Stump, Inflectional morphology, 2001). The reason is that it is difficult to capture overlapping distributions by natural classes. In view of this, rules of referral have been proposed to derive bidirectional syncretism (Stump, Inflectional morphology, 2001; Baerman etal. (Language 80:807-824, 2005)). In contrast, I would like to pursue the hypothesis that systematic instances of overlapping syncretism ultimately motivate a new approach to inflectional morphology—one that fully dispenses with the assumption that morphological exponents are paired with morpho-syntactic feature specifications (and that therefore qualifies as radically non-morphemic): First, rules of exponence are replaced with feature co-occurrence restrictions (FCRs; Gazdar etal., Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, 1985). For phonologically determined natural classes of exponents, FCRs state incompatibilites with morpho-syntactic feature specifications. Second, marker competition is resolved by a principle of Phonology-driven Marker Selection (PMS). PMS takes over the role of the Specificity (Blocking, Elsewhere, Panini) Principle of standard analyses. Empirically, the main focus is on Bonan declension; the analysis is subsequently extended to Gujarati conjugation and Latin o-declension, with further remarks on bidirectional syncretism in other inflectional paradigms. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Syncretism nationallicence Bidirectionality nationallicence Mongolian nationallicence Latin nationallicence Gujarati nationallicence Feature co-occurrence restriction nationallicence Elsewhere nationallicence Blocking nationallicence Morphology Springer Netherlands 23/2(2013-05-01), 245-268 1871-5621 23:2<245 2013 23 11525 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-013-9224-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-013-9224-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Müller Gereon Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Morphology Springer Netherlands 23/2(2013-05-01), 245-268 1871-5621 23:2<245 2013 23 11525 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer