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The document discusses the linguistic phenomenon of suppletion, where different phonetic forms are used for related grammatical functions of the same word. There are two types of suppletion: stem suppletion, where completely different sounds are used for related lexical expressions like "go" and "went"; and affix suppletion, where unrelated affixes are used to express the same conceptual category in different subclasses. Good, better, best and be, am, are, was are given as examples of stem and affix suppletion, respectively. Exceptions to regular morphological rules are also discussed.

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Fix Supletion and Exception

The document discusses the linguistic phenomenon of suppletion, where different phonetic forms are used for related grammatical functions of the same word. There are two types of suppletion: stem suppletion, where completely different sounds are used for related lexical expressions like "go" and "went"; and affix suppletion, where unrelated affixes are used to express the same conceptual category in different subclasses. Good, better, best and be, am, are, was are given as examples of stem and affix suppletion, respectively. Exceptions to regular morphological rules are also discussed.

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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.

Currently, there are two types of suppletion; stem suppletion and Affix suppletion (Pyan,
2006). Stem suppletion explains the completely different sound pattern of lexical expressions,
having same conceptual meaning. For example, ‘go’ becomes ‘went’ to fill up the past tense of
‘go’ and ‘good’ becomes ‘better’ to make up for the comparative form of ‘good’. On the other
hand, affix suppletion “reffers to a situation where one conceptual category is expressed by two
completely unrelated affixes in different subclasses” (Pyan, 2006).

 Good, Better, Best


"The forms good, better and best, which belong to the adjective good . . . show suppletion since
the relationship between the morphs representing the root morpheme is phonologically arbitrary.
It would plainly make no sense to claim that there is a single underlying representation in the
dictionary from which go and went or good and better are derived. The best we can do is to
content ourselves with listing these allomorphs together under the same entry in the dictionary."

 Be and Go

 The Old English verb for 'be,' like its Modern English counterpart, combined forms of
what were originally four different verbs (seen in the present-day forms be, am, are,
was). Paradigms that thus combine historically unrelated forms are called suppletive.
 "Another suppletive verb 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)."

 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— good—better—
comparative or biggest best
superlative suffix

 The following table illustrates affix suppletion:

Morphological Regular, Suppletive affix


process nonsuppletive
affix
Addition of plural cat—cats cherub—cherubim
suffix ox —oxen
EXEPCTION

EXCEPTIONS is part of morphology form that is excluded from a general statement or does
not follow a rule.
PART 1

 When a noun is used in a compound where its meaning lost.

Compound noun's plural is not always simply adding -s / -es in the end of vocabulary.

If the rightmost word of a compound takes an irregular form, the entire compound generally
follows suit.

EXAMPLE:

mother-in-law ---> mothers-in-law

flatfoot ---> flatfoots

PART 2

 When a new word enter the language, the regular inflectional rules generally apply.

The exceptional to this maybe a word" borrowed " from a foreign language.

Shortened form---> an abbreviated form of a polysyllabic

EXAMPLE:

Auto ---> automobile

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