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--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tgpedersen@...
> To: cybalist@...
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 12:01 PM
> Subject: [tied] Re: Satem shift
>
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> > [Torsten:] As I've heard it, the tendency in American English

today is for the

> past participle to be used everywhere eg.: "I have went", "I have

took".

>
> [Piotr:] "The past participle" ??? And can any American English

speakers on this list confirm this strange observation? "I been"
or "he gone" do occur in dialectal English, but this is usually the
result of auxiliary-verb suppression ("HAVE dropping"), not of
paradigmatic levelling.

"I have took" I heard from a woman who was in car in which I hitched
a ride in 1971. "I have went" I heard two days ago on the Ricki Lake
Show.

Torsten