Universals in Comparative Morphology: Suppletion, Superla...
Bobaljik, Jonathan David / Keyser, Samuel Jay![Universals in Comparative Morphology: Suppletion, Superlatives, and the Structure of Words](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/130/13098746/CHSBZCOP0313098746.jpg)
This groundbreaking study of the morphology of comparison yields a surprising result: that even in suppletion (the wholesale replacement of one stem by a phonologically unrelated stem, as in good-better-best) there emerge strikingly robust patterns, virtually exceptionless generalizations across languages. Jonathan David Bobaljik describes the systematicity in suppletion, and argues that at least five generalizations are solid contenders for t...