Sunday, 14 October 2007

pne: A picture of a plush toy, halfway between a duck and a platypus, with a green body and a yellow bill and feet. (Default)

Amy this morning: "Mami hat an mein Fuß sitzt".

Two noteworthy things about that are both in the word "sitzt": firstly, she seems to have generalised the -t morpheme for the past participle (though in this particular case, it should have been "gesessen", not "gesitzt" - I suppose it's a "strong" verb), and secondly, she fairly consistently omits the "ge-" morpheme of German past participles — just as it's done in, say, Low German, or English, for that matter.

I always find it interesting when Amy does things the way some other natlang does it; somehow that makes it seem more natural (in an "I can see where that development might have come from" way).

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