Abstract
The paper analyses which preterit and past participle forms of the irregular verbs are used in contemporary English. The electronic corpus GloWbe has been chosen for this corpus analysis as the most voluminous and dialectologically most extensive electronic corpus of the contemporary English language available for free usage online. The irregular verbs are examined and their forms identified. Based on the detected preterit and past participle forms three types of change are defined. The paper also suggests that liability to language change, including the type of change, depends on the class of an irregular verb, namely, on the derivational model of the irregular forms a verb had or still has.
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