Suppletion (definition)

Suppletion is a morphological change that completely changes the form of a word. An example of suppletion in English would be “went” and “go.”

See Also

• Morphology (definition)

External Links

• http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsSuppletion.htm
• http://www.glottopedia.de/index.php/Suppletion

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppletion

References

• Crystal, David (1999) The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin.
• Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.