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Date: 05-Sep-2006
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Suppletion in Verb Paradigms: Veselinova 

	
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Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 22:57:01
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Suppletion in Verb Paradigms: Veselinova 
 



Title: Suppletion in Verb Paradigms 
Subtitle: Bits and pieces of the puzzle 
Series Title: Typological Studies in Language 67  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=TSL%2067 


Author: Ljuba N. Veselinova, Stockholm University

Hardback: ISBN: 9027229791 Pages: 236 Price: U.S. $ 138.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027229791 Pages: 236 Price: Europe EURO 115.00


Abstract:

This book examines stem change in verb paradigms, as in English 
go 'go.PRESENT' vs. went 'go.PAST', a phenomenon referred to as 
suppletion in current linguistic theory. The work is based on a broad sample 
of 193 languages, and examines this long neglected phenomenon from a 
typological perspective. In addition to identifying types of suppletion which 
occur cross-linguistically, the study brings to light areal patterns of the 
occurrence of suppletive forms in verb paradigms. Several hypotheses as 
regards the diachronic development of suppletive forms are presented as 
well. 

The author also seeks to explore the methodological issues of evaluating the 
frequency of linguistic features in large language samples by introducing a 
method of weighting languages according to their genetic relatedness. All 
figures obtained in this way are compared to the proportions yielded by more 
familiar counting methods, and the results and implications of the different 
procedures are compared and discussed throughout. 


Table of contents

Acknowldegments  ix-x  
Abbreviations and presentation conventions  xi-xiii  
Introduction  xv-xvii  
Chapter 1: Previous studies on suppletion  1-31  
Chapter 2: Method  33-49  
Chapter 3: Some theoretical issues and a general overview of the data  51-
61  
Chapter 4: Tense-aspect suppletion I: Synchronic perspective  63-95  
Chapter 5: Tense-aspect suppletion II: Diachronic and usage-based 
perspective  97-134  
Chapter 6: Suppletive Imperatives  135-147  
Chapter 7: Verbal number and suppletion  149-173  
Concluding remarks  175-178  
Appendices  179-214  
References  215-229  
Index of languages  231-232  
Index of authors  233-234  
Index of subjects  235 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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