Re: USAGE : English past tense and participle in -et
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 27, 2003, 22:01 |
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On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 01:21:12PM -0800, Costentin Cornomorus wrote:
> I like that notion of alot being a quantifier. In
> this usage, it is clearly not the noun "lot"
> though it's related.
That's just overcomplicating the grammar to no purpose.
The set phrase "a lot" may have collapsed into a
monophonemic unit which is unanalyzed by most native
speakers, but there's no reason to reinterpret it as a new
word.
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