<div dir="auto">The Bardi root for “give” is null. It’s historically from *wa but sound changes deleted both the consonant and the vowel. Inflected forms such as i-nga-na ‘3-pst-rem.past’ have no overt root.</div><div dir="auto">Claire</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 5:37 AM Alexandre Arkhipov via Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p><font face="Calibri">Dear Joe,<br>
<br>
If you do not limit yourself to the Papuan languages, zero verb
roots should be occasionally found in many languages, I guess
(although I don't have many examples). <br>
E.g. the Russian verb <i>вынуть </i>"take out" is considered
to have no root due to historical changes (вы- is a regular
prefix "out(wards)", -ну is a regular suffix (semelfactive), and
-ть is the infinitive suffix).<br>
Some forms of Basque auxiliaries should probably be analyzed as
having no root, e.g. zen (Past </font><font face="Calibri">3SG
of the i</font><font face="Calibri">ntransitive auxiliary, where
both z- and -en appear elsewhere as past markers).<br>
<br>
All best,<br>
Alexandre<br>
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<div>27/02/2024 05:26, Pun Ho Lui via
Lingtyp пишет:<br>
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Dear All, and 哈佬 Hilario,
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<div>Thank you for all the responses.</div>
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<div>To slightly summarize (which is already claimed by Comrie and
Zamponi 2019), the zero verb root/allomorph can be found in
Trans New Guinea (e.g. Horokoi by Wesley Kuhron Jones). Those
verbs tend to be semantically light, e.g. ‘hit’, ‘come’, ‘give’
and ‘be’ (e.g. Menggwa Dla).</div>
<div>It also seems like such phenomenon can be found in other
languages, e.g. Yawuru (Nyulnyulan) and Bardi in Australia, and
potentially Ket.</div>
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<div>Warmest,</div>
<div>Joe </div>
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<div>Pun Ho Lui <a href="mailto:luiph001@gmail.com" target="_blank"><luiph001@gmail.com></a> 於 2024年2月24日
下午2:06 寫道：</div>
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<div style="line-break:after-white-space">Dear
All,
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Recently I am interested in the “zero verb root” in
Papuan languages, that is, the meaning of the verb(s)
are indicated by a root that has no phonological
expression (Comrie and Zamponi 2019), as in (1).</div>
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<div>(1) Selepet (McElhanon 1973)</div>
<div>Ø-nek-sap</div>
<div>see-1sGO-3SGS.IMMPST </div>
<div>'He saw me’</div>
<div><br>
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<div><span>The Papuan
languages (potentially) with zero verb root I have
collected so far are: Abau, Abun, Coastal Marine,
Edolo, Kalamang, Main, Nimboran, Amele, Yeri, Yima,
Whitehead, Awe,Siroi, Gahuku, Bukiyip, Anêm, Kâte
and Selepe.</span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>I am
wondering do you know of other Papuan languages with
this feature.</span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><font><span>Thank
you.</span></font></div>
<div><font><span><br>
</span></font></div>
<div><font><span>Warmest,</span></font></div>
<div><font><span>Pun
Ho Lui Joe</span></font></div>
<div><font><span><br>
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<div><font><span>References: </span></font></div>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman">Bernard Comrie
and Raoul Zamponi. 2019. Verb Root
Ellipsis. In Matthew Baerman, Oliver Bond,
Andrew Hippisley (eds.): <span style="font-style:italic">Morphological
perspectives: Papers in honour of
Greville G. Corbett</span>, 233–280.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman">McElhanon,
Kenneth A. 1972. <span style="font-style:italic">Selepet
Grammar. Part </span><span style="font-style:italic">1: </span><span style="font-style:italic">From
Root to Phrase. </span>Canberra:
Pacific Linguistics.</font></p>
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