On the Rise of Suppletion in Verbal Paradigms

Juge, Matthew L.

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“…It is also possible that these two factors combined to produce these forms. For more on suppletion in Romance go verbs, see Juge (1999). point here is that the individual histories of go verbs in the various Romance languages resulted in a present-preterit syncretism only in Catalan.…”

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Morphological factors in the grammaticalization of the Catalan “go” past

Juge

2006

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The Catalan periphrastic perfective past is a so-called “go” past:Vaig cantar, lit. “I-go to-sing”, “I sang” vs.Vaig allà, lit. “I-go there”, “I go there”. Its semantic development has been much discussed, but it presents morphological issues as well. Previous analyses ignore key morphological factors, especially the shift from the early mix of preterit and present auxiliary forms to exclusive use of the present and the development of several variant auxiliary forms. The auxiliary-plus-infinitive construction shares some but not all forms with the lexical verbanar“to go”. Early examples use mostly preterit auxiliary forms but later the small number of present forms grows and the preterit forms disappear. I argue that the present-preterit syncretism in the first person plural ofanar,anam, allowed for reinterpretation of the construction as one with a present tense auxiliary rather than a preterit auxiliary. This analysis runs counter to the typical ‘narrative present’ account. Subsequently, the unique third person singularvaallowed for new auxiliary forms influenced by the synthetic preterit. This case shows the importance for typological study of detailed analysis of this type to counterbalance the risk of superficial analysis inherent in crosslinguistic studies.

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Morphological factors in the grammaticalization of the Catalan “go” past

Juge

2006

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“…Indeed, though the criteria are presented with synchrony mainly in mind, they are generally equally applicable to diachrony. However, just within diachrony I distinguish two origins of suppletion: incursion, where outside forms invade a paradigm, and suppletion introduced by sound change, where an originally unified paradigm is split by internal changes (Juge 1999). These are also called COMBINATORY versus DISSIMILATORY suppletion (Plank 1996).…”

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Canonical Typology, Suppletion, and Possible Words

Corbett¹

2007

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I specify a typology for the extreme of inflectional morphology, namely suppletion (as in go ϳ went). This is an unusual enterprise within typology, and it requires a 'canonical' approach. That is, I define the canonical or best instance, through a set of converging criteria, and use this point in theoretical space to locate the various occurring types. Thus the criteria establish the dimensions along which specific instances of suppletion are found, allowing me to calibrate examples out from the canonical. The criteria fall into two main areas, those internal to the lexeme and those external to it. Moreover, I find interactions with other morphological phenomena and discuss four of them: syncretism, periphrasis, overdifferentiation, and reduplication. These remarkable instances of suppletion, particularly when in interaction with other phenomena, extend the boundary of the notion 'possible word'. Besides laying out the possibilities for the specific phenomenon of suppletion, I show how a canonical approach allows progress in typology, even in the most challenging areas.* INTRODUCTION. If the examples were not so familiar, linguists would look harder at instances of suppletion, like go ϳ went and Russian rebenok 'child' ϳ deti 'children'. Such items are significant for our view of morphology (as Carstairs-McCarthy (1994: 4410) points out). They are also a limiting case for the notion POSSIBLE WORD, and as such they constitute a real challenge to the typologist. There have been several accounts of suppletion, starting with Osthoff 1899; an annotated bibliography of this work with over seventy items is provided by Chumakina (2004). However, the definitions and surveys proposed do not yet constitute a full typology. The focus of this article is therefore a specification of the criteria for a typology of suppletion. To propose a typology in this apparently hostile terrain means adopting a CANONICAL APPROACH, one that defines a principled point in the theoretical space and calibrates outwards from it.I start by outlining the basic notions needed and then consider the place of suppletion. The heart of the article is the criteria for the typology, which divide naturally into two main types, those internal to the lexeme and those external to the lexeme. These are taken up in turn. In addition, I treat the question of interactions with other morphological phenomena, which extend further the notion possible word, and finally address the interesting issue of the frequency of suppletive items.

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“…Corbett () interprets Mel'čuk's definition as referring to the most canonical type of suppletion. Less canonical cases of suppletion also exist, which show partial semantic irregularity and/or formal regularity (see also Juge ; Nübling ). For instance, think and thought are less strongly suppletive, because they still share some phonological material.…”

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“…First, both bið and is were in a suppletive relation with wæs –the past‐tense forms of the root wes ‐ – which combined the functions – or their past‐tense equivalents – of both these verbs. This situation, where a single verb functions as part of the paradigm of two other, unrelated verbs, is called ‘overlapping suppletion’ (Juge ). In (3) wæs is used in a specific statement related to a then‐moment, the past‐tense equivalent of the now‐moment typical of is , whereas (4) illustrates wæs in a generic statement (‘elephants don't like pigs’).…”

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On the Distribution and Merger ofIsandBiðin Old and Middle English

Petré

2012

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This article accounts for the transition of Old English IS 'is' and BIÐ 'will be' from separate verbs with an overlapping past tense WAES into a single, non-overlapping suppletive paradigm in Middle English, in which IS became limited to the indicative singular and BIÐ to the indicative plural and all other forms. I first analyse the synchronic situation in Old English, showing that IS was mainly used for predicating present states of specific subjects, and in identifying clauses. By contrast, BIÐ was used to encode future situations and generic statements, which are connected to future situations through their implication of future validity (compare expressions like boys will be boys). Importantly, the high frequency of generic statements, which are about kinds instead of individuals, also led to plural forms of BIÐ being more salient than those of IS. Second, I show how environmental constructional change can account for their merger. Specifically, the grammaticalization of the construction [shall Inf] brought about semantic erosion of the sense of futurity in BIÐ. The subsequent semantic confusion between BIÐ and IS led to a reanalysis of their distribution, which was guided by their number asymmetry: BIÐ was restricted to plural and IS to singular number.

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On the Rise of Suppletion in Verbal Paradigms

Abstract: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2000)

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Morphological factors in the grammaticalization of the Catalan “go” past

Morphological factors in the grammaticalization of the Catalan “go” past

Canonical Typology, Suppletion, and Possible Words

On the Distribution and Merger ofIsandBiðin Old and Middle English

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Abstract: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2000)

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Canonical Typology, Suppletion, and Possible Words

On the Distribution and Merger ofIsandBiðin Old and Middle English

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