Bringbrought

Bringbrought is a neologism used in linguistic discussions to describe a hypothetical verb form that fuses the base verb bring with its irregular past participle brought to express a transfer action whose endpoint is the speaker or the discourse participant, combining aspects of present action with a completed result. The term is a portmanteau of bring and brought, and is not part of standard English. It appears mainly in experimental writing and online debates about tense and aspect, where scholars use it to illustrate how tense systems could be merged or reinterpreted in creoles or pidgins, or in analyses of blended or nonstandard dialects. In practice, bringbrought is described as a deliberately nonstandard construct used to explore the boundary between tense and aspect, rather than as a proposed replacement for bring or brought in ordinary speech.

Usage is highly restricted and contested. Advocates argue that such a form could convey both the initiation of an action and its completion within a single word, while critics point out it risks ambiguity and is not phonologically consistent with standard English. No major grammar of English recognizes bringbrought as a conventional form.

Examples: "Please bringbrought the tools to the workshop." "During the revamp, they bringbrought the new forms to the committee." These illustrate its function in hypothetical analysis, not everyday use.

See also: bring, brought, tense and aspect, irregular verbs, creole linguistics, language experimentation.