When is a Syncretism more than a Syncretism? Impoverishment, Metasyncretism, and Underspecification

Phi Theory: Phi-Features across Modules and Interfaces

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 251-294

  Harley, Heidi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

combinations; morphosyntactic; past tense; represented; various

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EID: 85188383129     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199213764.003.0009     Document Type: Chapter

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