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Suppletive kin term paradigms in the languages of New Guinea
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Matthew Baerman
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November 29, 2014
Abstract
Kin terms in some languages have suppletive roots according to the person of the possessor, as in Kaluli na:la: ‘my daughter’, ga:la: ‘your daughter’ versus ida: ‘her/his daughter’. Suppletion is generally seen as a language-specific morphological peculiarity, but in this context there are a number of lexical and morphological similarities across languages, suggesting the motivation may also lie in the nature of kin terms themselves. We offer a typological assessment of suppletive kin terms through a case study of the languages of New Guinea, where the phenomenon appears to be particularly common.
Received: 2014-1-20
Revised: 2014-7-15
Published Online: 2014-11-29
Published in Print: 2014-12-1
©2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Munich/Boston
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Keywords for this article
inflection;
kin terms;
morphology;
New Guinea;
person;
possession;
suppletion
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- A typological sketch of affricates
- Suppletive kin term paradigms in the languages of New Guinea
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- Comparing categories and constructions crosslinguistically (again): The diversity of ditransitives
