Surrey Syncretisms Database

• Main Authors: Baerman, Matthew, Brown, Dunstan, Corbett, Greville
• Other Authors: Economic and Social Research Council (UK), University of Surrey
• Format: Dataset
• Language: Armenian; Erzya; Georgian; Kashmiri; Latvian; Slovenian; Somali; Telugu
• Published: University of Surrey 2002
• Subjects: Amele language; Standard Arabic language; Classical Arabic; Araona language; Armenian language; Classical Armenian; Bonan language; Bao'an(Bonan); Burushaski language; Daga language; Jola-Fonyi language; Diola-Fogny; Dieri language; Diyari; Erzya language; Erzya Mordvin; Georgian language; Arhuaco language; Ika; Kashmiri language; Kiowa language; Koryak language; Lango (Uganda) language; Lango; Latvian language; Limbu language; Macushi language; Gunwinggu language; Bininj Gun-Wok(Mayali); Muna language; Nobiin language; Nubian(Nobiin); Rongpo language; Slovenian language; Slovene; Somali language; Swahili (individual language); Swahili; Telugu language; Tsakhur language; Yimas language; Nubian; Koryak
• Online Access: http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/

http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/ The Surrey Syncretisms Database encodes information on syncretism in the inflectional morphology of 30 genetically and geographically diverse languages, representing such morphosyntactic features as case, person, number and gender. Syncretism is defined as when some set of words fail to distinguish morphosyntactic feature values which we believe, based on language-internal criteria, to be underlyingly present (for example, in Latin, the dative and ablative cases may be distinct in some contexts but collapsed into a single form in others). For each language all instances of syncretism are recorded. The construction of this database was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (U.K.) under grant number R000237939.