oai:surrey.smg.surrey.ac.uk:syncretism 2002-12-14

Baerman, Matthew Brown, Dunstan Corbett, Greville Economic and Social Research Council (UK) University of Surrey Baerman, Matthew Brown, Dunstan Corbett, Greville 2002 http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/ The Surrey Syncretisms Database encodes information on syncretism in the inflectional morphology of 30 genetically and geographically diverse languages, representing such morphosyntactic features as case, person, number and gender. Syncretism is defined as when some set of words fail to distinguish morphosyntactic feature values which we believe, based on language-internal criteria, to be underlyingly present (for example, in Latin, the dative and ablative cases may be distinct in some contexts but collapsed into a single form in others). For each language all instances of syncretism are recorded. The construction of this database was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (U.K.) under grant number R000237939. University of Surrey The Surrey Syncretisms Database can be accessed without cost. Users agree not to pass on the Database to third parties and to properly acknowledge the Surrey Syncretism Database as the source of information in publications or manuscripts that make use of its data. Amele Classical Arabic Araona Classical Armenian Bao'an(Bonan) Burushaski Daga Diola-Fogny Diyari Erzya Mordvin Georgian Ika Kashmiri Kiowa Koryak Lango Latvian Limbu Macushi Bininj Gun-Wok(Mayali) Muna Nubian(Nobiin) Rongpo Slovene Somali Swahili Telugu Tsakhur Yimas Surrey Syncretisms Database Dataset description/inflectional morphology