Re: Suppletory forms
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, February 20, 1999, 5:51 |
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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.
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