New verb principal part?

RonButters at AOL.COM RonButters at AOL.COM
Tue Mar 7 15:28:53 UTC 2000


In a message dated 3/7/2000 4:59:32 AM, brewer at MAIL.TKU.EDU.TW writes:

<< Arnold Zwicky wrote:

> ...  nonstandard preterites ... but have there been some systematic
> surveys? ...

How about E. Bagby Atwood's _A Survey of Verb Forms in the Eastern United
States_ (1953, U.Mich.Pr). >>

Tom Cresswell and Virginia McDavid did a lot of work on "nonstandard"
preterites and participles--and I think Mike Miller had an article or two on
this as well.



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