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Verb stem aspect in Mian

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Languages differ in how central a role aspect plays in their grammatical systems. In some languages aspect distinctions are central to the system, for example the derivationally related imperfective-perfective aspect pairs in Slavonic languages. In other languages there are only some instances in which aspect is relevant. I confront this with new data from Mian, a Mountain Ok language of Papua New Guinea. Perfective-imperfective stem aspect is an important part of Mian grammar because it imposes restrictions on how the stem can be further inflected. Similar systems can be found in all Mountain Ok languages; they are however rare in Papuan languages in general. A corpus study based on 456 Mian verbs (lexemes) shows that 27% form aspect pairs, derived by a range of diverse morphological processes: various suffixes (sometimes with concomitant tone change), one infix, stem change (in the form of various apophony patterns) or suppletion. About 40% are monoaspectual verbs, which lack either of the stems, in many cases for semantic reasons. There is a large number of biaspectual verbs (29%), which are the default morphological pattern. The evidence from Mian shows that aspect distinctions can be important grammatically, yet are restricted to a subset of verbs.

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hal-03618108 , version 1 (24-03-2022)

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Sebastian Fedden. Verb stem aspect in Mian. Sandra Augendre, Graziella Couasnon-Torlois, Déborah Lebon, Clément Michard, Gilles Boyé and Fabio Montermini (eds.). Proceedings of the Décembrettes 8th International Conference on Morphology, Bordeaux, 6-7 December 2012, , pp.99-135, 2015. ⟨hal-03618108⟩
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