The only way to avoid saying that " got " in that construction is a past participle, is to postulate that " to get " has a special paradigm which is sensitive to categories which do not apply to the paradigms of other verbs in the English language . " Kick the bucket " is also a fixed phrase or phrasal idiom, but normally linguists would still say that " kicked " in " He kicked the bucket " is an ordinarily-inflected past tense verb and " bucket " is a basic singular definite noun, no matter how aberrant the meaning is . . . talk ) 19 : 57, 20 January 2014 ( UTC)
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