Wonder how often this happens...

[Laurence Horn]

On Jun 17, 2013, at 7:53 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:

> On Jun 17, 2013, at 1:48 PM, Larry Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
>
>>
>> Mike Breen, lead announcer for ABC, welcoming the viewing audience before the start of Game 5 last night in San Antonio:
>>
>> "Parker and the Spurs needing a win before the series head backs [pause] to Miami."
>
> every so often i post on my blog on "externalization of inflection" V + Prt examples like this (_log-inned_, _sign-upped_, etc.).
>
--sometimes resulting in reanalysis, as I can imagine with "loginned" or "logouting", but sometimes that seems quite unlikely, as with "headbacks" or "headbacked".  Not to (hereby) mention those cases of double inflection that we've threaded on in the past, e.g. "sleptwalked".

LH

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