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Re: ?? Re: a "natural language" ?

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Friday, December 3, 2004, 22:38
John Cowan wrote:

>Rodlox scripsit: > > > >> is suppletive supposed to mean that it is supplementary? >> >> > >No. A suppletive inflected form is one that is supplied from a different >root. For example, the past tense of "go" in English is "went", which is >supplied from the root "wend" (now archaic and poetic). This happened >when the regular past tense of "go" disappeared in the pre-Old-English >period (oddly, OE itself had a *different* suppletive past tense for >this verb). > >More examples at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppletion . > > >
The only suppletive form that I can think of that still retains a seperate root is 'fast~quickly', if that counts.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>