The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

[Herb Stahlke]

So the cut/hurt class is expanding to include final /s+coronal/
clusters?  I wonder if there are cases of taste, list, and others
having invariant PST/PSP.  I have heard "cast" as a PST form, both
from theater sorts and from fishermen.

Herb

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On Mar 11, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Herb Stahlke wrote:
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>> I found your pronunciation of the past tense of "text" surprising.
>> Morphologically you're treating "text" as a member of the cut/hurt
>> class of weak verbs that are invariant in their principal parts.  It
>> would be the only such verb ending in a consonant cluster, although it
>> does have the requisite final coronal.
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> a while back i reported on instances of /pest/ as the PST/PSP of the
> verb "paste".
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> arnold
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