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Re: # of possible verb declensions (was gotten, boughten)

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 26, 2002, 19:09
JS Bangs scripsit:

> It seems to me that any way of looking at the verbs that makes you aware > of the number of differrent constructions is very backwards.
What I would find hard about the verbs (as I suppose) is the huge number of idiosyncratic verb+prepositions: go out 'date', go on 'continue speaking', go off 'explode' or 'be deactivated', etc. etc. -- John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_