Re: [tied] Re: verb agreement in one stage of English

13-10-03 12:37, Ray wrote:

> There is one question I want to ask regarding Old English: Is the
> sentence I cited common or rare in OE? Maybe it is produced by a
> careless speaker or writer occassionally and therefore should not be
> taken as serious evidence against the universal.

It definitely isn't a scribal mistake. I haven't done any counting, but
my impression is that "proto-perfect" constructions with an inflected
past participle are at least as common as those with the participle left
uninflected.

Piotr