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Definition of suppletion in English: suppletionnoun səˈpliːʃ(ə)nsəˈpliʃən mass nounLinguistics The occurrence of an unrelated form to fill a gap in a conjugation (e.g. went as the past tense of go). 〔语言学〕异干法 Example sentencesExamples - We list the instances of suppletion and give examples of regular inflected items when they are available.
- In the first part of the paper, we show that suppletion is not erratic: suppletive forms tend to always appear in groups, in definite areas of verbal paradigms.
- Lexical words are generally fitted into the flow of language through such mechanisms as affixation, suppletion, stress shift, and vowel change, all of which have morphological and other effects.
- These patterns of suppletion can be correlated with particular geographical areas, language families, and specific lexemic groups.
- As the complementary part of the project, we will examine a range of genetically diverse languages, create a database, and use it to construct a typologically informed theory of suppletion.
Derivativesadjective səˈpliːtɪv Linguistics Most adverbs allow only periphrastic comparison (happily/more happily/most happily), but a few are suppletive: badly/worse/worst; well/better/best. Example sentencesExamples - In the following the regular as well as the suppletive forms of aorist and future are listed.
- The superlative may use the same root as the comparative, or may be further suppletive, but will not use the basic adjectival root.
- If you wish to test the effects of lemmatization, then replace all inflectional and suppletive variants with their root forms: ‘walk, be,’ etc.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French, from medieval Latin suppletio(n-), from supplere 'fill up, make full' (see supply1). Rhymesaccretion, Capetian, completion, concretion, deletion, depletion, Diocletian, excretion, Grecian, Helvetian, repletion, Rhodesian, secretion, Tahitian, venetian Definition of suppletion in US English: suppletionnounsəˈplēSHənsəˈpliʃən Linguistics The occurrence of an unrelated form to fill a gap in a conjugation (e.g. went as the past tense of go). 〔语言学〕异干法 Example sentencesExamples - In the first part of the paper, we show that suppletion is not erratic: suppletive forms tend to always appear in groups, in definite areas of verbal paradigms.
- Lexical words are generally fitted into the flow of language through such mechanisms as affixation, suppletion, stress shift, and vowel change, all of which have morphological and other effects.
- These patterns of suppletion can be correlated with particular geographical areas, language families, and specific lexemic groups.
- We list the instances of suppletion and give examples of regular inflected items when they are available.
- As the complementary part of the project, we will examine a range of genetically diverse languages, create a database, and use it to construct a typologically informed theory of suppletion.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French, from medieval Latin suppletio(n-), from supplere ‘fill up, make full’ (see supply). |