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    This document discusses morphological suppletion and exceptions in English. [1] Suppletion occurs when forms of a word are not morphologically predictable, such as "bad-worse" and verb conjugations of "be". [2] Suppletion is more common in high-frequency words and stems. [3] Exceptions to regular inflectional rules may occur with borrowed words, compounds, and some irregular verbs.

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    This document discusses morphological suppletion and exceptions in English. [1] Suppletion occurs when forms of a word are not morphologically predictable, such as "bad-worse" and verb conjugations of "be". [2] Suppletion is more common in high-frequency words and stems. [3] Exceptions to regular inflectional rules may occur with borrowed words, compounds, and some irregular verbs.

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    This document discusses morphological suppletion and exceptions in English. [1] Suppletion occurs when forms of a word are not morphologically predictable, such as "bad-worse" and verb conjugations of "be". [2] Suppletion is more common in high-frequency words and stems. [3] Exceptions to regular inflectional rules may occur with borrowed words, compounds, and some irregular verbs.

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    This document discusses morphological suppletion and exceptions in English. [1] Suppletion occurs when forms of a word are not morphologically predictable, such as "bad-worse" and verb conjugations of "be". [2] Suppletion is more common in high-frequency words and stems. [3] Exceptions to regular inflectional rules may occur with borrowed words, compounds, and some irregular verbs.

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    ENGLISH

    MORPHOLOG
    Y
    Suppletion
    &
    Exceptions
    Defenition of
    Suppletion
    "Bad - worse is a case
    of suppletion. Worse is clearly
    semantically related to bad in
    exactly the same way as, for
    example, larger is related
    to large, but there is no
    morphological relationship
    between the two words, i.e. there
    is no phonetic similarity between
    them."

    • "Suppletion is said to take place when the


    syntax requires a form of a lexeme that is not
    morphologically predictable. In English, the
    paradigm for the verb be is characterized by
    suppletion. Am, are, is, was, were, and be have
    completely different phonological shapes, and
    they are not predictable on the basis of the
    paradigms of other English verbs. We also find
    suppletion with pronouns. Compare I and me or
    she and her. Suppletion is most likely to be
    found in the paradigms of high-frequency words
    Good, Better, Best
    "The forms good, better and best,
    which belong to the adjective good ..
    show suppletion since the
    relationship between the morphs
    Be and Go  representing the root morpheme is
    The Old English verb for 'be,' like phonologically arbitrary. It would
    its Modern English counterpart, plainly make no sense to claim that
    combined forms of what were there is a single underlying
    originally four different verbs (seen representation in the dictionary from
    in the present-day forms be, am, which go and went or good and better
    are, was). Paradigms that thus  are derived. The best we can do is to
    combine historically unrelated content ourselves with listing these
    forms are called suppletive. allomorphs together under the same
    "Another suppletive verb entry in the dictionary
    is gan 'go,' whose preterit eode was
    doubtless from the same Indo-
    European root as the Latin
    verb eo 'go.' Modern English has
    lost the eode preterit but has found
    a new suppletive form
    for go in went, the irregular preterit
    of wend (compare send-sent)
    e
    x
    The following table illustrates stem suppletion:

    Morphological Regular, Suppletive stem


    process nonsuppletive stem

    Addition of past walk—walked go—went


    tense suffix

    Addition of big—bigger— biggest good—better—best


    comparative or
    superlative suffix
    e
    x
    The following table illustrates affix suppletion:

    Morphological process Regular, nonsuppletive Suppletive affix


    affix

    Addition of plural cat—cats cherub—cherubim ox


    suffix —oxen
    Defenition of
    Exceptions
    PART 1
    When a noun is used in a compound
    PART 2 where its meaning lost.
    When a new word enter the language, Compound noun's plural is not always
    the regular inflectional rules generally simply adding -s / -es in the end of
    apply. vocabulary.
    The exceptional to this maybe a If the rightmost word of a compound
    word" borrowed " from a foreign takes an irregular form, the entire
    language. compound generally follows suit.
    Shortened form---> an abbreviated
    form of a polysyllabic EXAMPLE :

    EXAMPLE : mother-in-law---> mothers-in-law


    flatfoot---> flatfoots
    auto---> automonbile
    PART 3
    hit-hit-hit

    EXAMPLE :
    She hit the ball yesterday.
    The sheep are in the meadow.

    hit or rang
    ring-rang-rung
    When a verb is derived from a noun,
    new word / shortened form---> -s , -es even though it is pronounced the same
    the verb is inflectional form---> as an irregular verb, the rules apply to
    compound noun---> -s, -es or it.
    inflectional form
    the verb is uninflectional form---> -d, EXAMPLE :
    -ed The police ringed the bank with armed
    men.
    EXAMPLE :
    flatfoots or mothers-in-law or
    footmen
    Thank you

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