dropping -ed in adjectives

[Arnold Zwicky]

On May 16, 2012, at 1:21 PM, Larry Horn wrote:
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> On May 16, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Lisa Galvin wrote:
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>> It's not just [st] clusters though. I have noticed it in Hawaii all over the place, in writing, and always with -ed adjectives; e.g. "shave ice".
>>                                                  Lisa GalvinSeattle USA
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> Right, I was over-hastily conflating two shifts, one a phonological simplification (the -[st] one, that doesn't apply just to participial adjectives) and the other a morphological reanalysis ("shave ice", since it occurs before a vowel, doesn't participate in that phonological cluster simplification or even an extension of it).  I assume that a lot of the "shave ice" speakers/writers wouldn't say/write "I shave a week ago" or "∑when I've shave or showered", with a true past tense or past participle.  Presumably, as Amy et al. were suggesting, the adjectival forms (whether "ice tea" or "not prejudice/not bias against other races" or "shave ice") simply don't include the -ed morpheme for the relevant speakers.

t/d-deletion specifically zapping the PSP suffix has come up here before, including in the prejudice/bias case -- last time in April 2008.  at the time, i said i was preparing a LLog posting on the topic, but i seem not to have finished it.  alas.

arnold

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