Abstract

COMRIE, Bernard  and  ZAMPONI, Raoul. VERB ROOT ELLIPSIS. Lingüística [online]. 2017, vol.33, n.2, pp.33-53. ISSN 2079-312X.  https://doi.org/10.5935/2079-312x.20170016.

Verb Root Ellipsis is a phenomenon attested robustly in only two languages spoken in the Americas and one language family of the Andaman Islands. It consists in the ellipsis of the root of the verb, primarily under conditions of discourse retrievability, leaving behind only affixes (and possibly clitics), thus testing the bounds of morphological possibilities and theory. The phenomenon is examined in the relevant languages: Inuktitut, Kwaza, and some members of the Great Andamanese family. Formal and functional parallels with other phenomena, such as verb ellipsis (ellipsis of the whole verb word) and lexical zero-root morphemes and allomorphs are discussed.

Keywords : morphology; ellipsis; zero root.

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