Re: OT: English and schizophrenia

> Date:         Tue, 7 Aug 2001 13:21:07 -0000
> From: Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
>
> > Date:         Tue, 7 Aug 2001 07:06:44 +0000
> > From: Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
> >
> > It seems to me that Danish/Norwegian/Swedish verbs have as few
> > fexions as English, have the same problem about principle parts,
> > and have a good deal fewer tenses - they must on that score be
> > significantly easier than English.
>
> Except for one form, Danish verbs _are_ their principal parts:
> [...]
What I forgot to write here is that the modern North Germanic
languages can use slightly longer strings of modal verbs than English,
making them about as complex even though they don't have the
continuous tenses.

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