Another monosyllabic base form for PSP

[Neal Whitman]

Yes, it was definitely referring to a previous incident in the movie, not a
habitual action.

NW
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> On 5/7/12 12:04 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
>> Date:    Sun, 6 May 2012 23:44:23 -0400
>> From:    Neal Whitman<nwhitman at AMERITECH.NET>
>> Subject: Another monosyllabic base form for PSP
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>> The latest (to me) example of a monosyllabic verb with a lax vowel
>> nucleus
>> and dental stop coda comes from the movie_The Avengers_, in which Natasha
>> Romanov says to Bruce Banner:
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>> "You didn't come here because I bat my eyelashes at you."
> Very interesting. . .
>
> Dumb question: does the context clearly indicate that the past tense is
> intended? It sounds fine to me as a present indicating habitual/repeated
> action. Perhaps I've just got a tin ear.
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> Thanks for the blog pointers: I'll go take a look when avoiding grading.
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> ---Amy MacEvilly
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