A suppletion-pattern gap in 'tripartite' tense-aspect systems

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Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/38575" target="_blank" >https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/38575</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/LB2025-38575" target="_blank" >10.5817/LB2025-38575</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A suppletion-pattern gap in 'tripartite' tense-aspect systems
Original language description
The present paper identifies a new gap in tense-aspect suppletion patterns in Indo-European 'tripartite' tense-aspect systems: For any triple of present-imperfect-aorist forms, the present and aorist forms never share the same base to the exclusion of the imperfect form. I explore the analysability of the relevant gap as a 'containment-and-competition' gap, i.e. in terms of Bobaljik's (2012) *ABA, or, alternatively, as a 'structure-and-locality' gap, i.e. in terms of Bobaljik's *AAB. I argue that, though the present-imperfect-aorist triple does not plausibly meet the morphosyntactic eligibility criteria for the former type of analysis, it does for the latter, once we allow for a specific kind of structural variation across tripartite tense-aspect systems. These conclusions suggest that there are domains in which 'structure-and-locality' gaps arise in the absence of 'containment-and-competition' gaps.
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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