Syncretisms involving clusivity
The inclusive and exclusive are commonly considered to be kinds of the first person plural. In this chapter, I will investigate whether they deserve this name by looking at syncretisms between clusivity and other person markers. Such syncretisms are rare, but a thorough investigation has resulted in a large enough sample to allow for some conclusions. The result is that the exclusive is often syncretic with the first person singular, and can thus indeed be considered a kind of first person plural. In contrast, the inclusive cannot. Further, the often claimed link between inclusive and second person in spurious. This claim probably only arose because of selected attention for those syncretisms arguing for such a connection, but disregarding all other syncretisms that argue against it. In this survey, all possible syncretisms are considered resulting in the observation that the inclusive/second person syncretism does not occur more often than others.
The Syntax-Morphology Interface: A Study of Syncretism
Preface List of abbreviations and symbols 1. Introduction 2. Characteristics of syncretism 3. Cross-linguistic typology of features 4. Formal representation 5. Formal framework and case studies 6. Conclusion References Indexes.
Meromorphic function sharing a small function with a homogeneous differential polynomial
Abstract In this paper, we consider a Brück-type result for a homogeneous differential polynomial generated by a meromorphic function.