What does Suppletive mean in linguistics?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In linguistics and etymology, suppletion is traditionally understood as the use of one word as the inflected form of another word when the two words are not cognate.

What is Suppletive form?

In morphology, suppletion is the use of two or more phonetically distinct roots for different forms of the same word, such as the adjective bad and its suppletive comparative form worse. Adjective: suppletive.

What are the examples of suppletion?

Standard illustrations of suppletion in English include the forms of the verb be: am, is, are, was, were, been, the present and past tense forms of the verb go: go, went cf. dance: danced; the degrees of comparison of some adjectives, for instance good: better: best cf.

What is Suppletive Allomorphy?

Definition: Suppletion is the replacement of one stem with another, resulting in an allomorph of a morpheme which has no phonological similarity to the other allomorphs.

What is Suppletive rule?

Suppletive law means law which is provided by the legislator or common law to supplement explicit terms adopted by parties to a private law relationship. It is optional or default law in the sense that the parties are free to alter the suppletive law.

What is partial Suppletion?

Suppletion is a phenomenon by which the addition of a semantic aspect or grammatical function is expressed by a totally or partially different morpheme which has little or no phonological connection with the base form.

What are the morphological processes?

The morphological process is the process by which a word is adjusted to conform to a certain context. To put it simply, it is the process of changing the form and function of a word to fit a context, sometimes to the extent of changing the meaning and/or grammatical function.

What is imperative law?

Imperative law means law which is not optional or default law. Its complement is “suppletive law” meaning optional or default rules. It comprises definitional law and public order rules.