A monoradical approach to some cases of disuppletion
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Karlos Arregi
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Andrew Nevins
Abstract
This paper, a commentary on Harley 2014, explores cases of disuppletive roots, such as destroy/destruct, persons/people, and worse/badder, the predominant approach to which is to assume that these come from different roots. We adopt a monoradical approach to such cases, claiming that they always involve the same root, but that the suppletive allomorphy is conditioned by the presence or absence of additional functional heads in the structure. We also posit that defective verbs in Spanish, an extreme case of disuppletion (whereby one of the exponents of this root is ineffable), receive a straightforward analysis as a case of contextually limited allomorphy, following Harley's postulate that certain formatives may have no elsewhere item on either the LF or the PF side (the Encyclopedic List and the Exponent List, respectively).
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- Frontmatter
- On the identity of roots
- Comments
- Distributing roots: Listemes across components in Distributed Morphology
- Roots don't take complements
- Roots and domains
- A monoradical approach to some cases of disuppletion
- Against conflation
- Wherefore roots?
- On diagnosing complement-taking roots
- Arguments for a root
- One advantage and three challenges to a theory of roots as indices
- Roots in models of grammar
- Indices, domains and homophonous forms
- Individuation criteria for roots
- Generalized applicatives: Reassessing the lexical–functional divide
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- On the identity of roots
- Comments
- Distributing roots: Listemes across components in Distributed Morphology
- Roots don't take complements
- Roots and domains
- A monoradical approach to some cases of disuppletion
- Against conflation
- Wherefore roots?
- On diagnosing complement-taking roots
- Arguments for a root
- One advantage and three challenges to a theory of roots as indices
- Roots in models of grammar
- Indices, domains and homophonous forms
- Individuation criteria for roots
- Generalized applicatives: Reassessing the lexical–functional divide
- Reply
- Reply to commentaries, “On the identity of roots”
