[Lingtyp] Inventories of roots vs. derivational devices

[Giorgio Francesco Arcodia]

Follow-up to my previous response: for the opposite situation, namely no
complex roots, no root alternation and limited derivation, most of Sinitic
and some other strongly isolating languages of Mainland Southeast Asia
could be good examples.

GFA

2018-02-26 16:13 GMT+01:00 Giorgio Francesco Arcodia <
giorgio.arcodia at unimib.it>:

>
> Dear colleague,
>
> The first reference that comes to mind it Thurgood & LaPolla's Handbook of
> Sino-Tibetan Languages (2nd edition). You may find lots of examples of
> complex root paradigms and rich derivation in some Tibeto-Burman languages,
> especially Rgyalrongic, Kiranti and the languages of Northeast India.
>
> Some more works on this:
>
> Jacques, G. (2015). Derivational verbal morphology in Khaling. *Bulletin
> of Chinese Linguistics, 8*, 78-85.
>
> Jacques, G., A. Lahaussois & D. Bahadur Rai (2016). Reflexive paradigms in
> Khaling. *Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area, 39*(1), 33-48. DOI:
> 10.1075/ltba.39.1.02jac
>
> Jacques, G., A. Lahaussois, B. Michailovsky & D. Bahadur Rai (2012). *An
> overview of Khaling verbal morphology*. *Language and linguistics, 13*(6),
> 1095-1170.
>
> Post, M. (2007). *A Grammar of Galo.* La Trobe University, PhD
> dissertation.
>
> Sun, J. T.-S. (2000b). Stem alternations in Puxi verb inflection*.
> Language and Linguistics* *1*(2), 211-232.
>
> Sun, J. T.-S. (2004). Verb-stem variations in Showu rGyalrong. In Y.-C.
> Lin, F.-M. Hsu, C.-C. Lee, J. T.-S. Sun, H.-F. yang & D.-A. Ho (Eds.), *Studies
> on Sino-Tibetan Languages: Papers in Honor of Professor Hwang-Cherng Gong
> on His Seventieth Birthday *(pp. 269-296). Taipei: Institute of
> Linguistics, Academia Sinica.
>
>
> All the very best,
>
> Giorgio F. Arcodia
>
>
> 2018-02-26 16:06 GMT+01:00 Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm <tamm at ling.su.se>:
>
>> Dear all,
>> for a handbook chapter I am currently working on I would like to give a
>> few examples of how languages can vary in the sheer number of roots vs.
>> derivational devices they have at their disposal. Can anyone point me to
>> good sources alt. help me with relevant examples?
>>
>> Many thanks and all the best,
>> Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm
>>
>>
>> Prof. Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm
>> Dept. of linguistics, Stockholm university, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
>> tel.: +46-8-16 26 20 (office)
>> www.ling.su.se/tamm
>> tamm at ling.su.se
>>
>>
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