All I know is that if a verb adds a dental suffix then it's a weak verb, and that at least in OE there are two kinds of weak verb (-ede and -ed/t). So this would seem to be some fossil language. But all of my language books are somewhere else, tho' I would second the suggestion to read Pinker. Hmm. I wonder if anything's lying around here...
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmmag
no subject
Date: Monday, July 21st, 2003 04:19 am (UTC)