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Typology of nominal and adjectival suppletion

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AbstractThis article presents a sample-based typological account of suppletion in nouns and adjectives. The distribution of the grammatical categories involved in the suppletive forms is presented along with the lexical meanings most commonly found to be suppletive. It is demonstrated that nominal suppletion is not a rare phenomenon and most commonly involves the feature
Title: Typology of nominal and adjectival suppletion
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AbstractThis article presents a sample-based typological account of suppletion in nouns and adjectives.
The distribution of the grammatical categories involved in the suppletive forms is presented along with the lexical meanings most commonly found to be suppletive.
It is demonstrated that nominal suppletion is not a rare phenomenon and most commonly involves the feature.

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