Verb conjugation convergence occurs across related languages
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Available linguistic sources note specific examples of morphological convergence and overlapping suppletion in individual related language groups like Dravidian or Romance, but do not broadly establish the general claim across languages.
The Development of Complex Verb Morphology in the Dravidian Languages ... Convergence of the contracted forms and the simple forms did continue , but ... conjugation in Kūi need not be projected to the protolanguage ; in fact , this ...
Analysis to Synthesis introduces the process of Compound Verb Contraction to analyze the genesis of synthetic verb forms in the Dravidian languages. Contraction provides an explanation for their development from analytic forms by creating a paradigm of historical evolution that utilizes the formal and functional attributes of both the earlier and later forms. Triggered by a variety of different factors, Contraction guides the evolution of complex verb forms by using markedness relations to correlate their morphological, syntactic, and lexical dimensions. An original work in comparative Dravidian linguistics, Analysis to Synthesis provides etymologies for fifteen conjugations which have hitherto resisted explanation. All fifteen show the same general development, allowing us to extract a co
... across probably all languages – 'agglutina- tive', syntagmatic, concatenations of morphemes. In simple terms, it ... convergence' which also revealed the importance of morphomic structure in inflectional paradigms. The Romance verb ...
A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The Yearbook of Morphology, published since 1988, has proven to be an eminent support for this upswing of morphological research, since it contains articles on topics which are central in the current theoretical debates which are frequently referred to. In the Yearbook of Morphology 2004 a number of papers is devoted to the topic ‘morphology and linguistic typology’. These papers were presented at the Fourth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting in Catania, in September 2003. Within the context of this denominator, a number of issues are discussed wich bear upon universals and typology. These issues include: universals and diachrony, sign language, syncretism, periphrasis, etc.
# Verb conjugation convergence
Tags: verbs, conjugation
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- Asked: 2014-09-09
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## Question
Portuguese has a strange coincidence in the preterit perfect tense of the verbs ir (to go) and ser (to be): they are conjugated exactly equally.
Portuguese — English to go | English to be
Eu fui — I went | was
Tu foste — You (singular) went | were
Ele/Ela foi — He/She went | was
Nós fomos — We went | were
Vós fostes — You (formal / plural (outdated)) went | were
Eles/Elas foram — They (masculine/feminine) went | were
What is the name of this verb conjugation convergence phenomenon? Do you know more examples of it occurring in any language?
## Answers
### Answer by user483 (score: 7)
Corbett calls this (in Spanish) overlapping suppletion in his 2007 paper in Language. Stump is credited with the term heteroclisis (see Maiden (2009)).
### Answer by Matthew L Juge (score: 2)
Corbett's 2007 paper attributes the term "overlapping suppletion" to Juge (1999).
Juge, Matthew L. 1999. On the rise of suppletion in verbal paradigms. Berkeley Linguistics Society 25.183–94.
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