Re: Suppletory forms
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 18, 1999, 3:09 |
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On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 17:03:04 +0100 Lars Henrik Mathiesen
<thorinn@...> writes:
> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 18:37:04 -0500
> From: John Cowan <cowan@...>
> The close relatives of English have a perfectly good preterit for
> "go" (e.g. German "ging"), but it dropped out of English.
>Actually, both German and Scandinavian have suppletive forms here as
>well. The preterites are from a strong verb "gangan" with an extended
>stem (the infinitive/present infix -n-), which existed as a separate
>verb as well. (In Danish it is obsolete, but known). I don't know
>about Dutch and Frisian, though.
>Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT
>marked)
>
Well, in Yiddish the past form of _gein_, "to go", is _zain gegangen_.
Hmm...does German (and/or other Germanic languages) use a "have"/"be" +
past participle?
-Stephen (Steg)
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