What Is Suppletion? On * Goed  and on  Went  in Modern English[Note 1. The first fourteen sections of this paper have benefited ...] | Zendy

Kayne Richard S. | Zendy

Premium

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

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.

This content is not available in your region!

Continue researching here.

Having issues? You can contact us here

Accelerating Research