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<DIV> Dear List members</DIV>
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<DIV>I was wondering if any of you could enlighten me on the subject of</DIV>
<DIV>defective paradigms in Otomanguean languages (I'm a complete dilettante).</DIV>
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<DIV>Jamieson (1982: 166)reports that the negative incompletive of the Mazatec</DIV>
<DIV>verb 'carry' has only a 1sg form, while the positive incompletive, as well</DIV>
<DIV>as other aspects, inflect normally for person-number. (Though Jamieson's</DIV>
<DIV>1996 dictionary doesn't mention it.) Pike (1948: 105) describes a set of 20</DIV>
<DIV>or so nouns in Huautla de Jiminez Mazatec that take personal suffixes (same</DIV>
<DIV>as subject markers on verbs). Two of these ('plaza' and 'outdoors') are</DIV>
<DIV>defective, and have only 3rd person and 1st inclusive forms. What's</DIV>
<DIV>especially interesting about these examples is that the gaps in the</DIV>
<DIV>paradigm don't seem to have any phonological explanation, nor do they</DIV>
<DIV>correspond to any morphological alternation found elsewhere in the system.</DIV>
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<DIV>Has anyone out there done any work on the topic of such gaps in Mazatec or</DIV>
<DIV>any other Otomanguean language? Or at least observed such gaps? I'd be</DIV>
<DIV>grateful for any leads.</DIV>
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<DIV>best</DIV>
<DIV>Matthew (of the Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey, UK)</DIV>
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<DIV>References</DIV>
<DIV>Jamieson, Carole Ann. 1982. Conflated Subsystems Marking Person and Aspect</DIV>
<DIV>in Chiquihuitlán Mazatec Verbs. International Journal of American</DIV>
<DIV>Linguistics 48-2. 139-167.</DIV>
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<DIV>Pike, Kenneth. 1948. Tone Languages. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan</DIV>
<DIV>Press.</DIV>
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