Suppletion in verb paradigms: bits and pieces of the puzzle

This book examines stem change in verb paradigms, as in English go 'go.PRESENT' vs. went 'go.PAST', a phenomenon referred to as suppletion in current linguistic theory. The work is based on a broad sample of 193 languages, and examines this long neglected phenomenon from a typolo...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company [2006]
Schriftenreihe:Typological studies in language 67
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Zusammenfassung:This book examines stem change in verb paradigms, as in English go 'go.PRESENT' vs. went 'go.PAST', a phenomenon referred to as suppletion in current linguistic theory. The work is based on a broad sample of 193 languages, and examines this long neglected phenomenon from a typological perspective. In addition to identifying types of suppletion which occur cross-linguistically, the study brings to light areal patterns of the occurrence of suppletive forms in verb paradigms. Several hypotheses as regards the diachronic development of suppletive forms are presented as well. The author also seeks to explore the methodological issues of evaluating the frequency of linguistic features in large language samples by introducing a method of weighting languages according to their genetic relatedness. All figures obtained in this way are compared to the proportions yielded by more familiar counting methods, and the results and implications of the different procedures are compared and discussed throughout.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-229) and indexes
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 234 Seiten)
ISBN:9789027293268
9027293260
DOI:10.1075/tsl.67

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