[Lingtyp] Lingtyp Digest, Vol 114, Issue 1

[Joseph Brooks]

Hi Joe,
Just a very small note to say the alternation in the person marking in
Yagaria is actually a matter of ablaut rather than vowel assimilation. Not
sure what Renck said about this but see Haiman's old paper on ablaut in Hua
or his grammar p 55 among others.
Cheers
Jsoeph

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>    1. Re: Zero verb root in Papuan languages (Pun Ho Lui)
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> Dear All,
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> Thank you for all the contribution.
> It seems that some zero roots are synchronically zero but not
> diachronically zero.
> 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.
>
> ?
>
> Warmest,
> Joe
>
> > Pun Ho Lui <luiph001 at gmail.com> ? 2024?2?24? ??2:06 ???
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > (1) Selepet (McElhanon 1973)
> > ?-nek-sap
> > see-1sGO-3SGS.IMMPST
> > 'He saw me?
> >
> > 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, An?m, K?te and
> Selepe.
> >
> > I am wondering do you know of other Papuan languages with this feature.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Warmest,
> > Pun Ho Lui Joe
> >
> > References:
> > Bernard Comrie and Raoul Zamponi. 2019. Verb Root Ellipsis. In Matthew
> Baerman, Oliver Bond, Andrew Hippisley (eds.): Morphological perspectives:
> Papers in honour of Greville G. Corbett, 233?280. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
> University Press.
> >
> > McElhanon, Kenneth A. 1972. Selepet Grammar. Part 1: From Root to
> Phrase. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
> >
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