| Lemma | suppletive variant |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Harris (1940) |
| Titolo | Review of "Foundations of Language". By Louis H. Gray, New York: Macmillan, 1939 |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | morpheme (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | If we find two or more morphemes which enter into complementary (contrastive) combinations, but whose meanings are the same, and the sum of whose positions in these combinations is the same as those of single morphemes, we group them as suppletive variants (e.g. 'is', 'am', 'are'). |