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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>Let me add a Bantu example. In Tswana, the root for ‘go’, otherwise /j/, also has a phonologically conditioned zero allomorph, as in /ʊ́-ílè/ ‘s/he went’, where /ʊ́-/ is the subject index ‘3rd person, class 1’, and /-ílè/ is a TAM-polarity suffix (perfect positive).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Denis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>De :</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Lingtyp [mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org] <b>De la part de</b> Claire Bowern via Lingtyp<br><b>Envoyé :</b> mardi 27 février 2024 14:08<br><b>À :</b> Alexandre Arkhipov<br><b>Cc :</b> lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org<br><b>Objet :</b> Re: [Lingtyp] Zero verb root in Papuan languages<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Claire<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>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 3SG of the intransitive auxiliary, where both z- and -en appear elsewhere as past markers).<br><br>All best,<br>Alexandre</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>27/02/2024 05:26, Pun Ho Lui via Lingtyp пишет:<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Dear All, and <span style='font-family:"MS Gothic"'>哈佬</span> Hilario, <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you for all the responses.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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).<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It also seems like such phenomenon can be found in other languages, e.g. Yawuru (Nyulnyulan) and Bardi in Australia, and potentially Ket.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Warmest,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Joe <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Pun Ho Lui <a href="mailto:luiph001@gmail.com" target="_blank"><luiph001@gmail.com></a> <span style='font-family:"MS Gothic"'>於</span> 2024<span style='font-family:"MS Gothic"'>年</span>2<span style='font-family:"MS Gothic"'>月</span>24<span style='font-family:"MS Gothic"'>日</span> <span style='font-family:"MS Gothic"'>下午</span>2:06 <span style='font-family:"MS Gothic"'>寫道：</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear All, <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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).<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>(1) Selepet (McElhanon 1973)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Ø-nek-sap<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>see-1sGO-3SGS.IMMPST <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>'He saw me’<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I am wondering do you know of other Papuan languages with this feature.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Warmest,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Pun Ho Lui Joe<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>References: <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><p style='background:white'>Bernard Comrie and Raoul Zamponi. 2019. Verb Root Ellipsis. In Matthew Baerman, Oliver Bond, Andrew Hippisley (eds.): <i>Morphological perspectives: Papers in honour of Greville G. Corbett</i>, 233–280. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p style='background:white'>McElhanon, Kenneth A. 1972. <i>Selepet Grammar. Part 1: From Root to Phrase. </i>Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Lingtyp mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="https://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp" target="_blank">https://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>Lingtyp mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><br><a href="https://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp" target="_blank">https://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>