Re: Ungrammaticalization?
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 16, 1999, 17:29 |
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On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
> From time to time. Especially when I'm tired, I'll sometimes produce
> ungrammatical (and not just prescriptivisitically [is that a word?]
> ungrammatical) sentences, plus I have some odd forms in my speech, like
> "boughten" for the past participle of "buy". I don't produce "have
> bought" very often, and virtually never a form like "would have
> bought". Why that "boughten" should be more common in the more complex
> verb form is a mystery to me, but nevertheless it exists.
Not so uncommon. My mother and I both have "boughten"; though never used
in a compound verb. I would contrast "home made bread" with "boughten
bread"; but would never say "I had boughten that bread for tomorrow's
dinner." My mother's sisters also have this, as I recall, so it may well
be a feature of North Country (NY) locallect.
Padraic.