535 Assignment 8

Bobaljik, Syncretism without paradigms

Due: Thurs, Feb.  12

1.    What Distributed Morphology operation can capture the same syncretic patterns as Williams' entry points?


2.    Which forms of the verb 'be' in English does Williams treat as accidentally homophonous?


3.    Looking at all the 1st person forms of Romanian in 16 and 17, speculate on why Stump came to the conclusion that -m was the exponent of 1pl, and not just 1? (1 sentence)

4.   Why can't the feminine singular paradigm be the Instantiated Basic Paradigm of Russian nominals for Williams? Why can't the masculine singular paradigm? (2 sentences).