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Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Keith Brown (Ed.) (2006) 297-299 (vol. 12)
Suppletion
Gilles Boyé 1, 2
(2006)

Suppletion manifests itself when some of forms of a word are based on different stems, such as the opposition between I go/I went in English. In morphology, suppletion has two related meanings: (i) suppletion is a diachronic process by which two words mix their forms to give rise to a single word with a paradigm with suppletive alternation; (ii) suppletion is the most extreme case of morphological irregularity, where stems used in the same paradigm are synchronically unrelated, independently of etymology. In both senses, suppletion is a property of paradigms and as
such mostly related to inflectional morphology.
1:  Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française (ATILF)
CNRS : UMR7118 – Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy I – Université Nancy II
2:  Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie (CLLE)
CNRS : UMR5263 – Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III – Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II – Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics
Allomorphy – Inflection – Morphology – Morphome – Paradigm – Principal parts – Stem – Stem suppletion – Suppletion – Suppletion patterns