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Typology and the formal modelling of syncretism

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Yearbook of Morphology 2004

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Thanks for helpful comments go to Dunstan Brown, Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, Marina Chumakina, Greville Corbett, Michael Cysouw, Martin Haspelmath, Greg Stump, the audience at the Mediterranean Meeting on Morphology in Catania (September 2003) and three anonymous referees. The research reported here was supported in part by the Economic and Social Research Council under grant number R000237939. Their support is gratefully acknowledged.

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Baerman, M. (2005). Typology and the formal modelling of syncretism. In: Booij, G., van Marle, J. (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 2004. Yearbook of Morphology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2900-4_3

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