Re: Ungrammaticalization?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 16, 1999, 5:02 |
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Josh Brandt-Young wrote:
> Has anyone else run into anything of the kind?
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.
--
"[H]e axed after eggys: And the goode wyf answerde, that she coude not
speke no Frenshe ... And then at last a nother sayd that he woulde haue
hadde eyren: then the goode wyf sayd that she vnderstood hym wel." --
William Caxton
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