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Does the verb for ‘come’ have suppletive verb forms?
Summary
This question concerns strong suppletion in verbs of coming. Suppletion is a process where a lexeme is changed in such a way that the new form does not resemble the previous when it appears in a different position in the paradigm. An example of this is English went and go. In this case, the verb is suppletive for tense. ‘Weak’ suppletion is not included.
Procedure
- Look up the section on verbs of coming.
- If no such section exists, search for the words ‘come’ and ‘arrive’.
- If the verb paradigm for ‘come’ is not described, code as ?.
- If the verb ‘come’ is described as being regularly conjugated or non-variant, code as 0.
- If the verb ‘come’ is suppletive anywhere, code as 1.
Examples
Samoan (ISO 639-3: smo, Glottolog: samo1305)
Samoan has suppletive forms for ‘come’ corresponding to different number values of the S or A argument (Milner 1966: 202). Coincidentally, this makes the plural form ambiguous for ‘come’ and ‘go’. Samoan is coded 1 for this feature.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
‘come’ | sau | ō |
‘go’ | alu | ō |
Further reading
Dressler, Wolfgang. 1985. Suppletion in word-formation. In Jacek Fisiak (ed.), Historical morphology, 97–112. The Hague: Mouton.
Veselinova, Ljuba N. 2006. Suppletion in verb paradigms: Bits and pieces of the puzzle. (Typological Studies in Language. Vol. 67.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Veselinova, Ljuba N. 2013. Suppletion according to tense and aspect. In Matthew S. Dryer & Martin Haspelmath (eds), The world atlas of language structures online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
References
Milner, George Bertram. 1966. Samoan dictionary. Aotearoa, New Zealand: Polynesian Press.
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Patron
Hedvig Skirgård