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Syncretism and iconicity in Icelandic noun declensions: a Distributed Morphology approach

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Yearbook of Morphology 2004

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For helpful comments and discussion, I would like to thank Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson, Bernd Wiese, Gisela Zifonun, and the three reviewers for Yearbook of Morphology. The research documented here was carried out as part of the JDS project GDE (Gisela Zifonun, principal investigator).

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Müller, G. (2005). Syncretism and iconicity in Icelandic noun declensions: a Distributed Morphology approach. 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_8

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