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Case Syncretism

by Matthew Baerman and Dunstan Brown http://wals.info/feature/28

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4 Responses to “Case Syncretism”

  1. Thomas Hart Chappell Says:
    February 23rd, 2010 at 11:32 pm

    http://wals.info/feature/combined?id1=28&id2=49 seems to show many inconsistencies.
    Too many to list them all here.
    But for instance:
    How can Yurok have syncretism in core cases only when it has exclusively borderline case-marking?
    Why is Fur listed as having four cases in Feature 49 but as having no inflectional case-marking in feature 28?
    How can Fijian, French, and Spanish have case-syncretism (feature 28) when they have no morphological case (feature 49)?

  2. Thomas Hart Chappell Says:
    February 23rd, 2010 at 11:38 pm

    http://wals.info/feature/combined?id1=28&id2=50
    also seems to show a few contradictions.
    Why is Hunzib listed as having no syncretism in feature 28, but as having syncretism in relevant NP types in feature 50?
    Why are Beja, Hamtai, Rama, and Squamish listed as having no or minimal inflectional case-marking in feature 28, but as having syncretism in relevant NP types in feature 50?

  3. Thomas Hart Chappell Says:
    February 23rd, 2010 at 11:42 pm

    http://wals.info/feature/combined?id1=28&id2=51
    What is meant by saying English, Fijian, French, and Spanish have case syncretism, when they have no case-affixes nor adpositional clitics?

  4. Matthew Dryer Says:
    February 24th, 2010 at 10:59 pm

    See reply at http://blog.wals.info/datapoint-50-wals_code_hzb/comment-page-1/#comment-20244

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