Suppletion in verb paradigms : bits and pieces of the puzzle / Ljuba N. Veselinova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Veselinova, Ljuba N.

Series:

Typological studies in language ; v. 67.

Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Suppletion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Suppletion in Verb Paradigms

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and presentation conventions

Introduction

1. Previous studies on suppletion

2. Method

3. Some theoretical issuesand a general overview of the data

4. Tense-aspect suppletion I

5. Tense-aspect suppletion II

6. Suppletive imperatives

7. Verbal number and suppletion

Concluding remarks

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

References

Index of languages

Index of authors

Index of subjects

The series Typological Studies in Language.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-229) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612155383

9781282155381

1282155385

9789027293268

9027293260

OCLC:

320321522

Publisher Number:

9789027229793