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Suppletive

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Sup´ple`tive
a.1.Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath.
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Concerning the morphology of personal pronouns, 1st and 2nd person pronouns are highly suppletive whereas third person pronouns are more morphologically regular as they mark plurality using one of Ket/Yugh nominal plural markers -[?
A note on personal pronouns in Enets and Northern Samoyedic/[TEXT NOT ... by Siegl, Florian / Linguistica Uralica
As a suppletive comparative with very high overall frequency, it might have easily undergone the loss of morphosyntactic transparency (cf.
"More strenger and mightier": some remarks on double comparison in ... by Wlodarczyk, Matylda / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
But even in this miniscule class, the correlation does not hold with any generality, as MINEMA 'go' (which has the infinitive 'minna) has suppletive forms such as 1sg past laksin.
Conjugation classes in Estonian/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] by Blevins, James P. / Linguistica Uralica
 
 
 
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