Another monosyllabic base form for PSP

[Amy West]

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
>
> 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:
>
> "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.

Thanks for the blog pointers: I'll go take a look when avoiding grading.

---Amy MacEvilly

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