Suppletion is where the word-forms of the same lexeme have phonologically distinct stems. A study of thirty languages shows it to be surprisingly widespread, suggesting resistance to the pressure of paradigmatic levelling. While a major factor in its preservation appears to be the high frequency of the items that display it, two other factors are in operation, the type of inflectional category involved and the nature of the distribution of stems.
2019. Grammatical Number in Welsh: Diachrony and Typology. Transactions of the Philological Society 117:S1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Petré, Peter
2013. On the Distribution and Merger of Is and Bið in Old and Middle English. Transactions of the Philological Society 111:3 ► pp. 301 ff.
Pomino, Natascha & Eva-Maria Remberger
2022. Romance Root Suppletion and Cumulative Exponence: Fusion, Pruning, Spanning. Languages 7:3 ► pp. 161 ff.
Pomino, Natascha & Eva‐Maria Remberger
2019. Verbal Suppletion in Romance Synchrony and Diachrony: The Perspective of Distributed Morphology. Transactions of the Philological Society 117:3 ► pp. 471 ff.
Ripamonti, Fabio
2018. Normatività e trasgressione nella distribuzione paradigmatica del suppletivismo verbale romanzo. Études romanes de Brno :1 ► pp. 79 ff.
2016. Unorderly ordinals. On suppletion and related issues of ordinals in Europe and Mesoamerica. STUF - Language Typology and Universals 69:4 ► pp. 565 ff.
Thornton, Anna M.
2012. Reduction and maintenance of overabundance. A case study on Italian verb paradigms. Word Structure 5:2 ► pp. 183 ff.
Čumakina, Marina Eduardovna, Andrew Hippisley & Greville Corbett
2004. Historical Changes in the Russian Lexicon: The Incidence of Alternating Suppletivism. Russian Linguistics 28:3 ► pp. 281 ff.
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