New PDF release: Suppletion in Verb Paradigms: Bits and Pieces of the Puzzle

By Ljuba N. Veselinova

ISBN-10: 9027229791

ISBN-13: 9789027229793

ISBN-10: 9027293260

ISBN-13: 9789027293268

This booklet examines stem swap in verb paradigms, as in English move 'go.PRESENT' vs. went 'go.PAST', a phenomenon often called suppletion in present linguistic idea. The paintings relies on a wide pattern of 193 languages, and examines this lengthy overlooked phenomenon from a typological point of view. as well as determining kinds of suppletion which take place cross-linguistically, the research brings to gentle areal styles of the prevalence of suppletive varieties in verb paradigms. numerous hypotheses as regards the diachronic improvement of suppletive varieties are awarded in addition. the writer additionally seeks to discover the methodological problems with comparing the frequency of linguistic gains in huge language samples by means of introducing a style of weighting languages in line with their genetic relatedness. All figures received during this means are in comparison to the proportions yielded by way of extra commonly used counting equipment, and the implications and implications of the several methods are in comparison and mentioned all through.

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8) French (Indo-European, Romance), adapted from Mel’čuk (partial paradigms) demander ‘ask’ pouvoir ‘can’ mouvoir ‘move’ peux meux 1sg present demande present demandons pouvons mouvons 1pl 15 16 Suppletion in verb paradigms According to Mel’čuk’s criteria, the alternation i- vs. all- in the French verb aller ‘go’ is suppletive because both the criterion of phonological distance and uniqueness are satisfied. In cases of weak suppletion, it suffices with uniqueness alone for an alternation to be considered suppletive.

C). In this study a distinction is proposed between categorial and non-categorial suppletion in order to make this distinction, cf. 4 for definition and examples. 2 Treatments and explanations for suppletion The phenomenon of suppletion has evoked different reactions among linguists. There is a strong tendency to regard it as something completely arbitrary and thus uninteresting; this is matched by an equally strong tendency to consider suppletion “marginal” and “accidental”, and generally as non-functional historical residue.

When suppletion is referred to as “marginal”, as is commonly done, there are two ways in which this could be the case: (i) it is marginal cross-linguistically, that is, it occurs in a very small number of languages around the world (cf. Dressler, Mel’čuk); (ii) it is marginal because there are typically very few suppletive items in the languages in which it occurs. However, as is also widely acknowledged, suppletion affects high token frequency items, which are far from marginal since they are the ones most commonly used in texts and conversation of their respective languages.

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