Languages and cultures self-repair the way ecosystems do, by selective replication of novel components that manage to find a job.
@pseudoerasmus is it uncontroversial to say English lost perfectivity in verbs aside from the ge- marker?
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@sarahdoingthing "a ge- participle is used to mark simple perfective past" sounds just fine -
@sarahdoingthing the changes allegedly induced by the loss of 'ge' sound quite speculative....
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