dropping -ed in adjectives

[Amy West]

On 5/17/12 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Wed, 16 May 2012 15:57:53 -0400
> From:    Laurence Horn<laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> Subject: Re: dropping -ed in adjectives
>
> Might this not be phonological in origin, simplifying -[st] clusters to -[s], rather than applying to (participial) adjectives across the board?
Yes, entirely possible.
>   If the same people say "he pass' me on the street las' week" or "in times pas'", it's not really a fact about adjectives as such.  Of course, if people are *writing" "He ain't prejudice", that's a further step,
I am seeing "he isn't bias" *consistently* in the writing.
> recalling our old threads on "ice tea/coffee"--and of course "ice cream", where the -ed dropping has become universal.
>
Good reminder: thanks!

---Amy West

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