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Dear colleagues,</div>
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I'm looking for putative cases of "strong" gender suppletion beyond the highly controversial noun examples, though they appear to be few and far between for agreement targets (which has been noticed before; see e.g. Mel'čuk 1994:390). There are of course questions
about terminology, but to be somewhat clearer: by i) "strong suppletion", I mean that the forms in question do not appear to be phonologically related (so
<i>go~went</i> would count as strong suppletion but cases of German umlaut are not); and ii) by "gender", I mean nominal classification that has a corresponding effect on formal alternations in other categories like demonstratives, adjectives, verbs, or other
agreement targets (Corbett 1991, Kramer 2015, etc.).</div>
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The discussions in the literature that I have found for adjectives/verbs/numerals (which are among the categories I'm interested in) are for the following languages: Bagwalal (Hippisley et al. 2004), Ancient(+Modern) Greek (Mel'čuk 1994), Tocharian (Kim 2019),
Yelmek (Gray and Gregor 2019), and Coastal Marind (Olsson 2017), though there's some joint conditioning by a combination of gender and number for a subset of these. </div>
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Does anyone know of other cases?</div>
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Thank you,</div>
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Luke Adamson</div>
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Department of Linguistics, Harvard University</div>
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Corbett, Greville. 1991. <i>Gender</i>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</div>
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James, and Tina Gregor. 2019. Gender/number syncretism in Yelmek verbal suppletion. In </span><i><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; cursor: text; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; font-family: sans-serif; left: 791.5812988235293px; top: 999.3545278712469px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(0.9843082418229805); color: transparent;">Proceedings </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; cursor: text; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; font-family: sans-serif; left: 132.6016376470588px; top: 1018.6979292830116px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(0.9810554029416548); color: transparent;">of
GLOW </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; cursor: text; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; font-family: sans-serif; left: 193.17515294117646px; top: 1018.6979292830116px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(1.1558450210387776); color: transparent;">in </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; cursor: text; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; font-family: sans-serif; left: 210.0027472941176px; top: 1018.6979292830116px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(0.957940546875691); color: transparent;">Asia </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; cursor: text; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; font-family: sans-serif; left: 241.28773835294118px; top: 1018.6979292830116px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(1.0689162069455214); color: transparent;">XII </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; cursor: text; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; font-family: sans-serif; left: 264.2244564705882px; top: 1018.6979292830116px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(1.0303888121090656); color: transparent;">and </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; cursor: text; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; font-family: sans-serif; left: 293.34957458823527px; top: 1018.6979292830116px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(0.938305308947128); color: transparent;">SICOGG</span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; cursor: text; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; font-family: sans-serif; left: 352.98795388235294px; top: 1018.6979292830116px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(0.974126241901264); color: transparent;"><i>XXI</i>.</span><br>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; cursor: text; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; font-family: sans-serif; left: 116.4875294117647px; top: 1083.073468106541px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(0.9792811382616569); color: transparent;">Hippisley,
Andrew, Marina Chumakina, Greville Corbett, and Dunstan Brown. 2004. Suppletion: frequency, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; cursor: text; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; font-family: sans-serif; left: 132.60163764705882px; top: 1102.4152516359527px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(1.0258722110003033); color: transparent;">categories
and distribution of stems. </span><i><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; cursor: text; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; font-family: sans-serif; left: 386.044526117647px; top: 1102.4152516359527px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(0.9801587942513088); color: transparent;">Studies </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; cursor: text; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; font-family: sans-serif; left: 439.07223811764703px; top: 1102.4152516359527px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(1.1558450210387776); color: transparent;">in </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; cursor: text; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; font-family: sans-serif; left: 456.55831058823526px; top: 1102.4152516359527px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(0.9699672153656697); color: transparent;">Language </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; cursor: text; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; font-family: sans-serif; left: 244.07696752941175px; top: 1121.7586530477174px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(0.9576801899645941); color: transparent;">28(2):
387–418.</span><br>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; cursor: text; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; font-family: sans-serif; left: 116.4875294117647px; top: 121.6776196359527px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(1.02138738604239); color: transparent;">Kim,
Ronald. 2019. Adjectival suppletion in Tocharian. In </span><i><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; cursor: text; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; font-family: sans-serif; left: 502.0240404705882px; top: 121.6776196359527px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(1.0578320414201694); color: transparent;">Diachronic </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; cursor: text; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; font-family: sans-serif; left: 580.1224574117647px; top: 121.6776196359527px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(0.9946188551863279); color: transparent;">perspectives </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; cursor: text; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; font-family: sans-serif; left: 667.023772235294px; top: 121.6776196359527px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(1.0629773024287887); color: transparent;">on </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; cursor: text; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; font-family: sans-serif; left: 687.9025439999999px; top: 121.6776196359527px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(1.0125595227967168); color: transparent;"><i>suppletion</i>,
ed. Ronald Kim,</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; cursor: text; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; font-family: sans-serif; left: 132.60163764705888px; top: 141.01940316536465px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(0.9768826804816696); color: transparent;">179–200.
Hamburg: Baar.</span><br>
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Ruth. 2015. </span><i><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; left: 253.08695435294118px; top: 173.25570904771743px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(0.9988347517790889); color: transparent;">The
m</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; left: 282.246048px; top: 173.25570904771743px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(1.0410424820851574); color: transparent;">orphosyntax </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; left: 383.6613854117647px; top: 173.25570904771743px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(1.0621030955349662); color: transparent;">of
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Oxford: Oxford University Press.</span><br>
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Igor. 1994. Suppletion: toward a logical analysis of the concept. </span><i><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; left: 639.768926117647px; top: 373.12404128301165px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(0.9801587942513088); color: transparent;">Studies </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; left: 693.4518804705882px; top: 373.12404128301165px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(1.1558450210387776); color: transparent;">in </span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; left: 711.5931952941175px; top: 373.12404128301165px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(0.9699672153656697); color: transparent;"><i>Language</i>
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Bruno. 2017. <i>The Coastal Marind language</i>. Doctoral Dissertation, Nanyang Technological University, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1; cursor: text; pointer-events: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; font-family: sans-serif; left: 132.60163764705877px; top: 527.8599274006588px; font-size: 14.828862494117645px; transform: scaleX(0.9617551429293072); color: transparent;">Jurong
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