The missing ABA patterns in case and number suppletion: Still looking for an explanation

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Martin Haspelmath, « The missing ABA patterns in case and number suppletion: Still looking for an explanation », Diversity Linguistics Comment, ID : 10.58079/nsum


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In singular-plural-dual triples, personal pronouns show the patterns in (1)-(4), but not the ABA pattern in (5), as shown by Smith et al. (2019), on the basis of data from many dozens of languages from around the world. (1) AAA, e.g. Mapudungun 2nd person eymi – eym-ün – eym-u (2) ABB, e.g. Kayardild 3rd person niya – bi-lda – bi-rra (3) ABC, e.g. Savosavo 2nd person no – me – pe (4) AAB, e.g. Yagua 2nd person jiy – jiryéy – sááda (5) *ABA Smith et al. (2019) also find that in nominative-acc...

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