Talk:Weak suppletion

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Weak suppletion is a contradiciton in terms. Suppletion implies that two verbs (nouns etc) supplement each other - the idea that a paradigm which is made from a single etymological root can be called suppletion seems nonsense. I do not believe that this is a real linguistic term. I will give those who wrote this two or three days to provide reliable sources to prove me wrong, and if they can't will call for rapid deletion. --Doric Loon (talk) 05:48, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

May I just add that I have done a Google search and found only a very small number of refereces, few of which appear to be authoritative sites. It looks as though one PhD thesis suggested this terminology and a few other lightweight internet sources followed him. This is not enough to have the terminology used in Wikipedia. Besides, even if we do accept this as alternative terminology, it does not deserve its own article since the concepts are fully discussed elsewhere. At the very most we need a brief note on such pages as "irregular verb" saying that this terminology is also possible; in that case this article would become a redirect. But I would resist even that unless a printed book by a recognised scholar can be found using the phrase. --Doric Loon (talk) 13:03, 6 June 2008 (UTC)