Re: USAGE: "gotten" (was: Latin) verb examples and tense meanings

nicole perrin wrote:
> No, I hear this by adults all the time.
Now that you mention it, I have heard "I don't got", but never "Do you
got", but perhaps that's just because being an informal usage, it tends
to take the informal question-form "Ya got?"

> Hmm, maybe so, but I think "will got" wouldn't be said, "will get" seems
> more likely.
Not likely.  If got is completely reanalyzed as a present tense, it will
be used with auxilaries, no other verb, except "to be", uses a different
form with auxilaries.  Besides, by that time, "got" will almost
certainly cease to be the past tense of "get", perhaps "getted" or just
"get" (by analogy with "put" and other monosyllables ending in -t).

> But I still don't think "will got" would be formed...
Don't see any reason why not, it's the logical conclusion of the modern
usage.

> Besides, people still say "have" all the time!
Right now they do.  But it's possible - indeed, probable, IMO - that
lexical "have" will be lost eventually, whether it'll be in, say, a
single generation or closer to a century, I couldn't say.  I rather hope
that it'll occur within my own lifetime, I'd love to see suppletion in
action, not to mention seeing my theory proven.  :-)  I suspect that
it'll be retained in the auxillary position, and perhaps in the "need"
sense (I hafta).

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