A theoretical and scientific research on the consecutive occurrences of the unmarked tense morpheme and the verbal base forms

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The current research made it clear that the phenomena of the so-called' non-past' verbal forms of Yanagawa-Japanese dialect(e. g.,/ nuru/, but not^*</ nu/> or^*</ neru/>, is used to mean' sleep-Nonpast',/ taburu/, but not^*</ tabu/> or^*</ taberu/>, is used to mean' eat-Nonpast',) are explained by three assumptions as follows. Assumption 1 : The so-called‘non-past' morpheme is analyzed as the tense expletive, and so, is allowed to repeat for one verbal stem. Assuming that some verbal lexemes can be associated with two stems, the tense expletive/(r) u/ selects the shorter verbal stem if there are two stems for a verbal lexeme. The tense expletive also selects the verbal form with its tense feature expletive. Assumption 2 : The number of the syllables for a verbal form is two or more. Assumption 3 : The numbers of the tense morphemes for a verbal stem in one verbal form within each morphological group are the same. In addition, the current research has provided data. We described the' non-past' forms of 266 verbs which correspond to standard ones frequently used in daily conversations, by the international phonetic symbols. The utterances of these by a native speaker of the dialect were recorded. The doubling of the unmarked tense morpheme is found in the verbal forms whose basic verb stem ends with the vowel/ e/.