Re: PLUG: SpecGram Current Issue
| From: | Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 2, 2007, 21:24 |
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On Mar 2, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Eldin Raigmore wrote:
> ---In conlang@yahoogroups.com, "David J. Peterson" <dedalvs@...>
> wrote:
>>
>> The current issue of The Speculative Grammarian came out
>> today, and one of my "articles" is in it:
>>
>>
http://specgram.com/CLII.2/>> in the article), and an
>> article by me elaborating on an idea I came up with for a "workable"
>> case of systematic suppletion in a language.
>
> I really, really, _really_ enjoyed the "systematic suppletion"
> article, which I
> found in the table of contents and read before reading about it
> here in your
> post.
I enjoyed it too, but I was wondering about the distinction between
suppletion and use of separate lexemes. Are we to believe that
English <am> and <were> "belong" to the same lexeme even though they
have distinct roots?
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