Underspecification and Neutrality: a unified approach to syncretism
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In this paper I discuss the phenomenon of syncretism in German and show that current type-based approaches are unable to combine the treatment of feature indeterminacy with the virtues of underspecification. I will then propose a revised organisation of the inflectional type hierarchies suggested by Daniels (2001), drawing on a systematic distinction between inherent and external (case) requirements. Finally, I will show how likeness constraints operating over a subset of the inflectional dimensions can be expressed by means of typed lists that abstract out the relevant dimension from the combined case/number/gender hierarchies suitable for syncretism.
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