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).

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Author:Beata Moskal
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):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0