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What Is Suppletion? On * Goed and on Went in Modern English[Note 1. The first fourteen sections of this paper have benefited ...]
Author(s) -
Kayne Richard S.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
transactions of the philological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-968X
pISSN - 0079-1636
DOI - 10.1111/1467-968x.12173
Subject(s) - linguistics , blocking (statistics) , term (time) , theme (computing) , history , vowel , relation (database) , set (abstract data type) , art , philosophy , computer science , physics , database , programming language , operating system , computer network , quantum mechanics
Abstract The term ‘suppletion’ is appropriate for went/*goed , but only if that term is taken to be an informal descriptive term that hides a rich set of phonological and morphosyntactic properties that underlie each of went and *goed taken separately. No direct blocking relation between went and *goed is called for. The notion of verbal theme vowel is central.