I'll give some detailed examples monday.
But think of this:
to kill
to massacre
the second verb involves more people (subject and object).
So we can speak of some form of plurality and the stems are different.
>>> Christophe Grandsire <Christophe.Grandsire@...> 03/24 3:39 >>>
At 15:06 24/03/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Reminds me of some languages in North America that have suppletion
>of verbstems depending on the subject being singular or plural .
>That would make it even more exotic ;)
>
Do you mean that they have different verb stems for singular and plural
subject? How weird! Are the two stems related at least? If not, then it's a
really strange system... Maybe I'm gonna steal it for Itakian :)) .
Christophe Grandsire
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