(*)ABA in Germanic verbs

Andersson, Samuel

doi:10.5334/gjgl.733

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“…1 There are also counter-arguments on *ABA such as Andersson (2018). They argue for the existence of the pattern in verbs in Swedish, Low German, and Gammalsvenskbymålet, an endangered Germanic language spoken in Ukraine.…”

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*ABA in Romeyka Verbal Paradigms

Yazar,

Demirok

2023

PTU

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In this work, we analyze present-tense and past-tense paradigms in Romeyka, an understudied Indo-European language belonging to the Hellenic sub-branch, spoken mainly in the Trabzon province in Turkey. We argue for decomposing the endings in the plural forms based on the regularities across present and past tense paradigms. While the proposed decomposition is empirically motivated, it leads to a theoretical challenge known in the literature as *ABA pattern, which has been extensively argued to be non-existent in morphology (e.g., Caha, 2009; Bobaljik, 2012; Middleton, 2020). We demonstrate this challenge for Nanosyntax (Starke, 2009), which predicts that syncretism will only be possible for structurally contiguous features. In an attempt to address this puzzle, we develop an account which relies on the idea that languages may differ in whether they single out the Speaker or the Addressee features in building first and second-person structures. Accordingly, the *ABA in Romeyka dissolves into a predicted pattern where the syncretism is the non-offending AAB pattern.

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*ABA in Romeyka Verbal Paradigms

Yazar,

Demirok

2023

PTU

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“…The capital 'A' in -nuuʃA represents a harmonizing low vowel. As I discuss in section 3.1 below, Barguzin Buryat has vowel harmony, and this 2 For additional recent work on the *ABA generalization and related topics, see Caha (2017aCaha ( ,b, 2019; De Clercq & Vanden Wyngaerd (2017); Andersson (2018); Baunaz & Lander (2018); Bobaljik & Sauerland (2018); McFadden (2018); van Baal &Don (2018), andMiddleton (2020).…”

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Case-sensitive plural suppletion in Barguzin Buryat: On case containment, suppletion typology, and competition in morphology

Davis

2021

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This paper examines plural suppletion in the Barguzin dialect of Buryat (Mongolic, Russia), which occurs only in accusative and genitive noun phrases. The restricted distribution of this process, specifically its absence in oblique cases, is significant for recent research on the typology of suppletion and the feature structure of case. For much work in this vein, this plural suppletion would qualify as having an ‘ABA’ pattern, which is predicted to be unattested. I argue that the suppletive plural morpheme in question is a portmanteau whose morphological requirements cause it to conflict, for independent reasons, with the realization of oblique noun phrases. Consequently, I argue that its distribution does not falsify the theories that normally ban ABA patterns, but rather instantiates a principled exception to them which sharpens our understanding of them.

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“…The account further predicts that counterexamples to *ABA should be possible if the feature [α] is also relevant to the exponence of the base forms. As noted by Andersson (2018;6), the verbs shear and swell both have surface ABA patterns in that the participial base differs from those of the bare and preterite forms (shear, shor-n, sheared; swell, swoll-en, swell-ed). Strikingly, both of these verbs use participial -en but preterite -ed, which we would derive through impoverishment of the root's diacritic feature.…”

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On containment and syncretism in English preterites and participles

Adamson

2019

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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This study explores Bobaljik's (2012) suggestion that in English, the feature representation of the preterite contains the representation of the past participle. While containment analyses in both Distributed Morphology (DM) and Nanosyntax capture the virtual absence of ABA patterns of syncretism for the order BASE-PARTICIPLE-PRETERITE, I demonstrate that they face empirical challenges when the exponence of the suffixes is considered. After evaluating an alternative feature decomposition, I show how a DM containment approach can derive the facts for both base and suffix alternations with the aid of impoverishment, which also helps to explain counterexamples to *ABA in this domain. Lastly, I offer cautionary discussion about the relationship between containment structures and deriving *ABA.

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(*)ABA in Germanic verbs

Cited by 6 publications

References 29 publications

*ABA in Romeyka Verbal Paradigms

*ABA in Romeyka Verbal Paradigms

Case-sensitive plural suppletion in Barguzin Buryat: On case containment, suppletion typology, and competition in morphology

On containment and syncretism in English preterites and participles

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