"Database Explains Strange Survival of Irregular Verbs"

[tony yyy]

I haven't read this properly but it looks as though it should be interesting.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-...lar-verbs.html
http://romverbmorph.clp.ox.ac.uk/

[french frank]

Well, I'm amazed that there's been no immediate take-up on this subject . It's something which, in an imperfectly informed, non-systematic way, I tried to explain (and understand) myself years ago.

[vinteuil]

... well, this really would have been my kinda thing some thirty years ago - before I got diverted by triliteral verbs and broken plurals...

[PatrickOD]

'Ours not to reason why'.
Getting through the French irregular verbs was achievement enough - happy memories! - but I appreciate the interest and fascination, and I happily leave you to it.

[french frank]

'Ours not to reason why'.
Getting through the French irregular verbs was achievement enough - happy memories! - but I appreciate the interest and fascination, and I happily leave you to it.

Mmmm, yes. It includes 80 different Romance languages and dialects, classified under the Latin infinitive ...