Re: THEORY: Verbs go irregular before our very eyes!

At 2:12 PM -0500 10/30/01, John Cowan wrote:
>Dirk Elzinga wrote:
>
>>This is precisely the solution that Ken Hale proposed in 1973 in his
>>paper "Deep-surface Canonical Disparities in Relation to Analysis and
>>Change: An Australian Example."
>
>
>Yes, I should have cited him, though I was using a secondary source.
>Anyhow, it's a nifty example of how regular (i.e. governed by rules)
>behavior can be the rare exception and irregularity the overwhelmingly
>dominant fact in inflectional morphology
Oh. I thought you had been independently brilliant :-).

Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga                              Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu

"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead;
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