{"id":1455,"date":"2022-08-02T23:09:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T23:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2022-08-18T20:39:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T20:39:55","slug":"defectivity-chaha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/defectivity-chaha\/","title":{"rendered":"Defectivity in Chaha"},"content":{"rendered":"

[This is part of a series of\u00a0defectivity case studies<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

Rose (2000) describes a circumscribed form of defectivity in Chaha<\/a>, a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia. Throughout Ethio-Semitic, many verbs have a frequentative formed using a quadriliteral verbal template. Since few verb roots are quadriconsonantal\u2014most are triconsonantal, some are biconsonantal\u2014a sort of reduplication and\/or spreading is used to fill in the template. In Tigryina, for instance (p. 318), the frequentative template is of the form C\u0258CaC\u0258C. Then, frequentative of the triconsonantal verb root \u221a\/grf\/ ‘collect’ is [g\u0258rar\u0258f], with the root \/r\/ repeated, and for a biconsonantal verb root like \u221a\/\u0127t\/ ‘ask’, the frequentative is [\u0127atat\u0258t], with three root \/t\/s.<\/p>\n

Rose contrasts this state of affairs with Chaha. In this language, the frequentative template C\u0268C\u0258C\u0258C cannot be satisfied by a biconsonantal root like \u221a\/t\u02bcm\/ ‘bend’ or \u221a\/Rd\/ ‘burn’, and all such verbs lack a frequentative.1<\/sup> The expected *[t\u02bc\u0268m\u0258m\u0258m] and *[n\u0268d\u0258d\u0258d] are ill-formed, as are all other alternatives. Furthermore, no frequentatives of any sort can be formed with quadriconsonantal roots.<\/p>\n

Rose notes that there are often semantic reasons for a verb to lack a frequentative (e.g., stative and resultative verbs are generally not compatible with it), this does not seem applicable here.<\/p>\n

Endnotes<\/h1>\n
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  1. As Rose explains: “R represents a coronal sonorant which may be realized as [n] or [r] depending on context…” (p. 317).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    References<\/h1>\n

    Rose, S. 2000. Multiple correspondence in reduplication. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society<\/em>, pages 315-326.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    [This is part of a series of\u00a0defectivity case studies.] Rose (2000) describes a circumscribed form of defectivity in Chaha, a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia. Throughout Ethio-Semitic, many verbs have a frequentative formed using a quadriliteral verbal template. Since few verb roots are quadriconsonantal\u2014most are triconsonantal, some are biconsonantal\u2014a sort of reduplication and\/or spreading is … Continue reading “Defectivity in Chaha”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defectivity","category-language","category-phonology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}