LL-L: "Morphophonology" LOWLANDS-L, 23.MAY.2000 (01) [E]

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From: Mike Adams [abrigon at yahoo.com]
Subject: Thoughts

I believe German has a related word, Ich Dinke, or like. I think..

Mike

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From: Mike Adams [abrigon at yahoo.com]
Subject: Dove/Dive

I know there is some theorty/law about how words are changed from on
form to another. Example

Dive to Dove, Diving  and so on..

I dive
I dove
I am diving

I expect there is similiar rules in how the verb is congegated in
German, just not as simple as English.

Mike

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From: Family Lindley [john at lindley-york.freeserve.co.uk]
Subject: LL-L: "Morphophonology" LOWLANDS-L, 22.MAY.2000 (04) [E]

So how about ....... arrive, arrove, arriven .......

......... I promise - no more of these .....

Best wishes

John Lindley
Wigginton
York.

| The American form 'dove' in fact also lacks a historical precedent, and was
| formed (seemingly since 1700 or so) by analogy with forms such as 'drove'.
| It is an extremely rare example of a 'weak verb' (i.e. one which forms its
| past forms in -t(e) or -d(e)) becoming 'strong' (i.e. one which

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From: john feather [johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk]
Subject: Morphophonology

Ed wrote:

>from "think" comes "thank", along the lines of "fall" and "fell", in which
"fell" may be the past tense or the causative, as in "to fell a tree".  Thus
"thank" is "to cause to think", as
in "I will remember what you did for me and perhaps pay you back". <

Duden Herkunftswörterbuch agrees with the idea that G. "Dank" comes from
"denken" (or a precursor) by the kind of transfer of meaning that Ed
proposes, but it seems to suggest that "danken" is a verbal form derived
from the noun - so nothing to do with past tenses.

"Dug" for "digged" is a fairly modern example of a weak verb becoming
strong. In this case the new form has taken over completely in all versions
of standard English.

A very modern pseudo-example in BE is "proven" as the new pp of "prove",
which we have foolishly adopted more and more in the last few years.
("Proven" is really the pp of the verb "pre(e)ve".)

Do we call "hung" for "hanged" strengthening, or something else?

John Feather johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk

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