Verb suppletion by gender in languages of New Guinea

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-594256
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.59425

Weiser, Mitzi

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Item type:	Book
Open Access Type:	Primary Publication
Publisher:	Universitätsbibliothek
Place of Publication:	Regensburg
Series of the University of Regensburg:	Regensburg Papers in Linguistics
Volume:	30
Number of Pages:	34
Date:	6 November 2024
Institutions:	Languages and Literatures > Institut für Information und Medien, Sprache und Kultur (I:IMSK) > Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
Dewey Decimal Classification:	400 Language > 400 Language, Linguistics
Status:	Published
Refereed:	Yes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of Regensburg:	Yes
Item ID:	59425

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Abstract

Verb suppletion by gender is a typologically rare phenomenon in which phonologically unrelated verb stems are used in accordance with the gender of an argument. By now, only a handful of languages of New Guinea have been convincingly shown to exhibit this phenomenon, which accords with the typological prediction by Bybee (1985) that gender is the least likely category to trigger verb suppletion. ...