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Analogy, commonly considered a regularizing process, can also create suppletion

What is it about?

The Galician verb "ir" 'to go' shows suppletion created by proportional analogy under the influence of the semantically related verb "vir" 'to come'. Additional Galician verbs show other kinds of suppletion created by other analogical processes.

Why is it important?

This paper counters the common view that analogy increases regularity.

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