Suppletion in Verb Paradigms

This book examines stem change in verb paradigms, as in English go ''go.PRESENT'' vs. went ''go.PAST'', a phenomenon referred to as suppletion in current linguistic theory. The work is based on a broad sample of 193 languages, and examines this long neglected phenomenon from a typological perspective. In addition to identifying types of suppletion which occur cross-linguistically, the study brings...