External, internal, and double inflection

Meg Worley commented yesterday on my inventory of two-part back-formed verbs: One that doesn’t quite fit the form but keeps company in spirit, due to the verb coming first: “to drag-ass.” I’ve noticed this quite a bit over the last couple of years, mainly in the present progressive or the imperfect (”I was drag-assing all … Continue reading External, internal, and double inflection