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

From:Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 30, 2001, 20:06
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 -- Dirk Elzinga Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu "Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we must learn both arts." - Thomas Carlyle