Publié-e 2023-12-31
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Résumé
Many of the languages in the Na-Déné language family supplete for shape in very similar ways; in Chipewyan,
Tlingit, and Navajo, it is consistently verbs of handling that supplete for the shape or state of the obj ect. (Cook
1986:8; Crippen 2011: 129; Willie 2000: 40-41 ). This paper examines eleven languages to establish if suppletion
for grammatical number, which is a far more limited phenomenon, also behaves consistently across the Na-Déné
family. Then, the author will consider what a cross-linguistic consistency in suppletion for grammatical number
means for the history of these languages, suggesting that number suppletion originated in proto-Na-Déné in
sg./pl. doubles, and suppletion in triples is a later innovation by the Athabaskan languages.