Re: Suppletory forms

On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 00:51:22 -0500 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
>Pablo Flores wrote:
>> 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.
>Consider the colloquial conjunction of the lexical verb "have" in
>English:
>Infinitive: have
>Future: will have
>Past: had
>Present progressive: having
>Present: got (I got, you got, he got, etc.)
>This comes from the expression "have got[ten]".  If you've gotten
>something, then you have it.

For the present, i say "i've got, you've got, s/he's got," etc., "i got"
being used as the normal past of "get".

"i got"  -  past of Get
"i've got"  -  present of Have
"i've gotten"  -  present-perfect of Get

-Stephen (Steg)

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