<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for all the contribution. </div><div>It seems that some zero roots are synchronically zero but not diachronically zero.</div><div>Another example would be u-‘go’ in Yagaria. In present tense, there is a vowel assimilation between the ‘go’ and the 1sg/du/pl or 3sg marking.</div><div><br></div><div><img width="415" alt="貼上的圖形-1.png" src="cid:A42B0B68-6A32-4016-938F-8C666444B004"></div><div><br></div><div>Warmest,</div><div>Joe<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Pun Ho Lui <luiph001@gmail.com> 於 2024年2月24日 下午2:06 寫道：</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; 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><div><br></div><div>(1) Selepet (McElhanon 1973)</div><div>Ø-nek-sap</div><div>see-1sGO-3SGS.IMMPST </div><div>'He saw me’</div><div><br></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I am wondering do you know of other Papuan languages with this feature.</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><font><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thank you.</span></font></div><div><font><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Warmest,</span></font></div><div><font><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Pun Ho Lui Joe</span></font></div><div><font><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">References: </span></font></div><div><div class="page" title="Page 48" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="section" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><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><div class="page" title="Page 49"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><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></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>