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The traditional meaning of the term ‘syncretism’ is, according to Marouzeau: “le phénomène par lequel une forme se trouve appelée à cumuler plusieurs fonctions” (Lexique de la terminologie linguistique, 1943, p. 205). For instance the Latin ablative which has taken over the functions of the instrumental and the locative.
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1) Trubetzkoy, Grundsiege der Phonologie,TCLP VII, 1939, p. 71. A. Martinet, Phonology as Functional Phonetics,1949, p. 5.
Cf. also Garvin, Review OSG p. 81.
1) It would seem as if Rulon Wells’ paper on Immediate Constituents is not quite free from the same difficulty when on p. 85 he says that it is possible to leave the factor of meaning out of account until part III of his analysis, whereas at the beginning of part I it seems to be meaning only which decides whether a certain sequence can be viewed as an expansion of another, and whether the environments of two sequences are the same, and “what sequences may … fill the blank in the of England” (p. 86, Word, 8, 1952).
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Siertsema, B. (1965). Syncretism and Catalysis. In: A Study of Glossematics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-8796-1_11
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