Morphosyntactic variation: Hamlet, Gertrude, Marshall, Bachmann

Language Log 2013-04-30

Summary:

Over the past few days, I've come across two attempts at antique English verb inflection in a modern political context. One of them is from Josh Marshall, "Godzilla vs. Mothra", TPM 4/29/2013:This is wild. Bilious WaPo blogger Jennifer Rubin lashes out at “jerk” Sen. Ted Cruz, says he must apologize to GOP colleagues.And the popcorn [...]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4592

Updated:

04/30/2013, 09:39

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Tags:

morphology linguistic history

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

04/30/2013, 11:31

Date published:

04/30/2013, 08:03