Scoring theories of root suppletion on Smith, Moskal, Xu, Kang and Bobaljik (2019) #
The data are the pronoun paradigms the paper analyzes, read from Data/Wordlist/SmithMoskalEtAl2019
(SmithMoskalEtAl2019.paradigm). Over the case hierarchy the Wardaman third singular and the
Khinalugh second singular are AAB, the Icelandic and Russian first singular ABB and the Lezgian
first singular AAA; over the number hierarchy the Awtuw first person is ABB and the Yagua second
person, the Wambaya first inclusive and the Dehu third masculine are AAB. The theories of
Eval.Suppletion.Theory, stated for any three-cell containment hierarchy, are scored on them as on
the grades of [Bob12].
Paradigm by paradigm (pronounCase, pronounNumber), a theory is right on an attested paradigm it generates
and wrong on one it does not: grounded containment, which excludes AAB, is wrong on the five AAB
paradigms, and the other theories are right on all nine. Pattern by pattern (pronounPatterns), with the
asymmetric linking hypothesis of the degree experiment, grounded containment is wrong that no
pronoun is AAB, where it is right for degree, and both containment theories are right that none of
these paradigms is ABA.
References #
The pronoun paradigms over the case hierarchy.
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The pronoun paradigms over the number hierarchy.
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Each case paradigm of [SMX+19] scored by whether a theory generates its pattern.
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Each number paradigm of [SMX+19] scored by whether a theory generates its pattern.
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Each root pattern scored by whether a pronoun paradigm of [SMX+19] shows it, with the asymmetric linking hypothesis: a theory predicts the absence of each pattern it cannot generate.
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Every theory generates the ABB and AAA case paradigms.
The AAB case paradigms refute grounded containment alone.
Every theory generates the ABB number paradigm, and the AAB ones refute grounded containment alone.
Some pronoun paradigm is AAB, and none of these is ABA.
Grounded containment is wrong that no pronoun is AAB, where Elsewhere insertion predicts nothing; both are right that none is ABA; the theory without containment predicts nothing.