Revue semestrielle de linguistique et littératures romanes

Écho des études romanes 2010, 6(1):109-116 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2010.011

Le supplétivisme - phénomène du centre ou de la périphérie ? Étude typologiqueFrench

Ivo VASILJEV
Université Charles, Prague

Suppletivism - a phenomenon of the center or the periphery? A typological study

While being a subject totally marginalized in most discourses of modern linguistics, suppletion, a supposedly marginal phenomenon, seems to have never been considered a subject worth of analysis within the framework of the centre-and-periphery dichotomy. The author argues that from the point of view of language typology as defined by Vladimír Skalièka, suppletion can clearly be considered a phenomenon in which inflection reaches its maximum degree, being, therefore, fairly characteristic of languages with a high share in the inflectional type and central to their systems. After reviewing some of the existing definitions of suppletion, the author dresses a general picture of suppletion cases in Czech, one of the typical highly inflectional languages, showing that suppletion in Czech is by no means peripheral. He then suggests that at a point when complexity, vagueness and assymetry of linguistic units are generally understood to be an inherent feature of language systems, the centre-and-periphery dichotomy would be more useful as an analytical tool if reserved for the description and analysis of processes of acceptance by, integration into and/or elimination from the established language system of all kinds of innovations or anachronisms.

Keywords: centre; periphery; suppletion; language typology; Vladimír Skalièka; Czech; language system

Published: June 11, 2010  Show citation

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VASILJEV, I. (2010). Le supplétivisme - phénomène du centre ou de la périphérie ? Étude typologique. Écho des études romanes, 6(1-2), 109-116. doi: 10.32725/eer.2010.011
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