“Most inflectional irregularities arise as a result of series of fairly uniform historical changes so forms that appear to be irregular from a synchronic point of view may be seen as following more regular patterns when the verbs are analyzed from a diachronic viewpoint.”
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Replying to @vgr
How does one determine something to be a irregular from a strict synchronic viewpoint? Lack of static beauty/elegance/harmony?
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Replying to @meditationstuff
More like exceptions, corner cases. This is from the Wikipedia page on irregular verbs, which can be revealed to have regularities in a diachronic analysis that are not visible in synchronic.
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