Re: irregularities
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 13, 2001, 21:02 |
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J Matthew Pearson wrote:
> To me, some of these irregular forms sound best as adjectival participles.
> Thus I have contrasts like the following:
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> I burned/*burnt the cake.
> The cake is burned/burnt.
Hmm ... I'd star the "burned" in the second example. Burned is the past
tense, burnt the adjective in my idiolect.
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