Re: Suppletory forms
| From: | Josh Brandt-Young <neonwave7@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 17, 1999, 6:09 |
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On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 20:10:26 -0300 Pablo Flores <fflores@...>
writes:
>I figured out it'd be nice to
>have some suppletory forms (like "went" for "go" in
>English), but I don't have a clue where they should
>come from. Any comments will be appreciated.
The story I heard was this: that a figure of speech emerged somewhere in
the Old English period by which people would say "I turned and went"
instead of just "I went"...and the verb "go" dropped out of the
construction over time. And since the word for "turned" was "went," this
is what survived as our past tense form.
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Josh Brandt-Young <neonwave7@...>
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