affix pleonasm crosslinguistically

[Nigel Vincent]

I had assumed that Francesco's message was principally about derivational morphology but if, following Siva's suggestion, we move into inflectional morphology, I would flag up the work of people like Anna Thornton and Chiara Cappellaro on so-called 'overabundance'. See references on their homepages:
http://www.annathornton.net/joomla/index.php/publications-en

http://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/660-4758/Dr-Chiara-Cappellaro.html

Nigel


Professor Nigel Vincent, FBA MAE
Professor Emeritus of General & Romance Linguistics
The University of Manchester

Vice-President for Research & HE Policy, The British Academy

Linguistics & English Language
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
The University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL
UK


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Subject: Re: affix pleonasm crosslinguistically

How about the 1sg present indicative ending of verbs in Sanskrit, which combined the thematic and athematic endings of Proto-Indo-European? E.g. gacch-ā-mi ‘I go’ (PIE *gʷm̥sk̂-oh₂-mi).

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