Excluding exclusively the exclusive: suppletion patterns in clusivity
- In this paper, I investigate the suppletion patterns that are found in languages that make a clusivity distinction. I will show that in the triple 1SG-1EXCL-1INCL, ABA patterns do not arise, consonant with other work on suppletion patterns (Bobaljik 2012, Smith et al. 2016). That is, it is not possible for the exclusive pronoun to supplete on its own whilst the singular and inclusive share a common base. All other patterns are attested. I will argue that the lack of ABA patterns supports the view that the inclusive is the most marked category in this set (Noyer 1992, Siewierska 2004, Cysouw 2003, a.o.), and propose that there is a containment relation such that the feature set that makes up the inclusive properly contains the features that form the exclusive, following the reasoning laid out in Bobaljik (2012). I further consider the makeup of person features, and argue that the lack of ABA patterns in clusivity suggest that clusivity features are privative, rather than binary ('cf'. Harbour 2016).
Author: | Beata Moskal |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-532396 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.362 |
ISSN: | 2397-1835 |
Parent Title (German): | Glossa: a journal of general linguistics |
Publisher: | Ubiquity Press |
Place of publication: | London |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2018/12/05 |
Date of first Publication: | 2018/12/05 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2020/04/11 |
Tag: | *ABA; clusivity; morphology; person; suppletion; typology |
Issue: | Art. 130 |
Page Number: | 34 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 34 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 463904850 |
Institutes: | Neuere Philologien / Neuere Philologien |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |