Grounded in the principle of Antihomophony (Kayne 2019a), several grammatical/functional morphemes, previously considered to have different properties according to their distribution, are examined. A more abstract and fine-grained analysis of the contexts in which these morphemes appear confirms that they are the same element in all constructions. After reviewing elements such as there, will, Italian feminine marker -a or Spanish plural marker -s, the so-called partitive preposition of is argued to be the same element as the one in other constructions. Therefore, Antihomophony is a powerful principle that simplifies the functional lexicon.
Richard S. Kayne (Fri,) studied this question.