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in morphology this is when an alteration completely changes a word. These changes cannot be explained by rules because the new forms of the word have different roots. An example of this would be “went” and “go.”  
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Suppletion is a [[Morphology (definition)|morphological]] change that completely changes a word. These changes cannot be explained by rules because the new forms of the word have different roots. An example of suppletion in English would be “went” and “go.”  
  
 
==References==
 
==References==

Revision as of 18:57, 11 November 2009

Suppletion is a morphological change that completely changes a word. These changes cannot be explained by rules because the new forms of the word have different roots. An example of suppletion in English would be “went” and “go.”

References

Crystal, David, and David Crystal. The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin, 1999.

Matthews, P. H. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.