Central Pame verbal inflection: Morphological classification across layers

Key Points

• The research aims to provide a comprehensive description of the Central Pame verbal inflection system and its morphological layers.
• Detailed analysis of inflection classes in different word positions such as prefix, suffix, and stem.
• Investigation of the relationships among subsystems of verbal inflection.
• Examination of syntagmatic predictability in this distributed-exponence system.
• Identified multiple inflection classes organized across various positions in a word.
• Showed that predictable relations among subsystems are crucial for understanding the inflection system.
• Described the complexity of Central Pame verbal inflection, highlighting the interdependence of its morphological layers.