<div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div>Follow-up to my previous response: for the opposite situation, namely no complex roots, no root alternation and limited derivation, most of Sinitic and some other strongly isolating languages of Mainland Southeast Asia could be good examples.<br><br></div>GFA<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-02-26 16:13 GMT+01:00 Giorgio Francesco Arcodia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:giorgio.arcodia@unimib.it" target="_blank">giorgio.arcodia@unimib.it</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><br></div>Dear colleague,<br><br></div>The first reference that comes to mind it Thurgood & LaPolla's Handbook of Sino-Tibetan Languages (2nd edition). You may find lots of examples of complex root paradigms and rich derivation in some Tibeto-Burman languages, especially Rgyalrongic, Kiranti and the languages of Northeast India.<br><br></div><div>Some more works on this:<br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">Jacques, G. </span><span>(</span><span lang="EN-US">201</span><span>5). Derivational verbal morphology in Khaling. <i>Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, 8</i>, 78-85.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="m_-6619044803183734325gmail-st"><span lang="EN-US">Jacques, G., A. Lahaussois & D. Bahadur Rai (2016). Reflexive
paradigms in Khaling. <i>Linguistics of the
Tibeto-Burman area, 39</i>(1), 33-48. DOI: </span></span><span lang="EN-US">10.1075/ltba.39.1.02jac</span><span lang="DE"><span></span></span></p>
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</span></span><i><span lang="EN-US">An overview
of Khaling verbal morphology</span></i><span class="m_-6619044803183734325gmail-st"><span lang="EN-US">. <i>Language
and linguistics, 13</i>(6), 1095-1170. <span></span></span></span></p>
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<br></div><div><br></div>All the very best,<br><br></div>Giorgio F. Arcodia<br><br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-02-26 16:06 GMT+01:00 Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tamm@ling.su.se" target="_blank">tamm@ling.su.se</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear all,<br>
for a handbook chapter I am currently working on I would like to give a few examples of how languages can vary in the sheer number of roots vs. derivational devices they have at their disposal. Can anyone point me to good sources alt. help me with relevant examples?<br>
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Many thanks and all the best,<br>
Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm<br>
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