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

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

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