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I am grateful to Shelly Harrison, Roger Higgins and Edwin Williams for helpful discussion, and to two anonymous reviewers for comments and suggestions that have led to improvements in the present version.

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Blevins, J.P. Syncretism and paradigmatic opposition. Linguist Philos 18, 113–152 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00985214

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