17.2948, Qs: Usurpative Etymology of Suppletive Forms

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Subject: 17.2948, Qs: Usurpative Etymology of Suppletive Forms

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Date: 04-Oct-2006
From: Konrad Szczesniak < kport at ultra.cto.us.edu.pl >
Subject: Usurpative Etymology of Suppletive Forms 

	
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Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:51:33
From: Konrad Szczesniak < kport at ultra.cto.us.edu.pl >
Subject: Usurpative Etymology of Suppletive Forms 
 


Dear Colleagues,

Apart from the well-known examples of suppletion in European languages
(notably "to be"), there are interesting cases of suppletive forms with a
"usurpative" etymology. The form "went" of "go" was usurped from the verb
"wend", or in Polish "lata" is the plural form of "rok" (year)?a plural
taken from the noun "lato" (summer). We are studying patterns of usurpation
of forms from other verbs or nouns. We will be grateful for examples from
(all possible) languages and will post a summary. Thank you,

Konrad Szczesniak
Silesian University

Marcus Callies
Philipps Universitat Marburg 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Typology




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