Lecture: The different kinds of verbal number suppletion

In my talk I want to introduce the phenomenon of verbal number suppletion and talk about its different types.
Furthermore I want to present the different data that have been argued to belong to this group. In the end, I want to present data and a preliminary (Distributed Morphology based) analysis to an interesting pattern I encountered.

Suppletion describes the pattern of morphemes that display phonologically completely separate stems, depending on some feature(s)/ (morphological) contexts.
Verbal Number Suppletion then, is the phennomenon where some number feature on the verb triggers its suppletion. However, there are a few different types of verbal number suppleltion and I want to talk about them in my talk. First there is participant number - i.e. suppletion triggered by the number feature of one of its arguments/participants. That means, depending on whether the object of a sentence is singular or plural we get a different realisation of a verb.
Another type of verbal number is what is called "pluractionality", i.e. the number of actions of a verb.
I will also discuss data from San Pedro Amuzgo (an Oto-Manguean language), where a pattern that on first sight looks like participant number arises, however, I will argue that this is not truly the case and it constitutes either a different type of participant number or a completely separate phenomenon.

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Day: 2023-05-27
Start time: 12:15
Duration: 00:30
Room: SH 0.107
Track: Theoretical Linguistics

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