Database explains strange survival of irregular verbs
Thursday, July 14, 2011 - 10:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
An historical study of the development of irregular verbs in the hundreds of Romance languages including French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Catalan has revealed how these structures survive. Experts have also examined why they are learned by successive generations despite 'making no sense' or, apparently, having any function in the language.