Re: latin verbs and rokbeigalmki curses

At 14:51 +0100 15.1.2000, Raymond Brown wrote:

>The vast majority (all but a half dozen or so) form all their different
>forms regularly in that once the four principal parts are known, all the
>forms can be generated without exception according to set rules.  One could
>feed the principal parts into a computer program and the program could then
>print out, if desired, the complete paradigm of the verb
IIRC someone has actually done that. ;-)

[...]
>
>2nd: habeo,    habere,    habui,     habitum
>    ['habEo:] [ha'be:rE]  ['habUi:]  [ha'bItU(m)]
>
Isn't [ha'bItU(m)] a typo for ['habItU(m)]?

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I have had the idea (in a Romancelang IAL context) of (further)
regularizing the Latin verb conjugation system by assigning all verbs whose
supine ends in _-itum_ (i.e. [-itum] OR [-i:tum]) to the _-ir(e)_
conjugation, all those whose supine ends in _-atum_ to the _-ar(e)_
conjugation, and all others to a single _-er(e)_ conjugation.  There would
be need for some more or less automatic adjustment rules for verbs with
supines in _-utum_, -_otum_ and _-sum_, but a totally regular con-paradigm
that would still be identical to Classical Latin in most verbs and very
close in the remainder could be achieved.

Elsewhere Ray also wrote:

>But in Spanish it must've been made easier in that forms derived from Latin
>'iui' would simply look like endings with no verb stem.
Indeed I also had the idea to have _er(e)_, _ar(e)_ and _ir(e)_ as
auxiliary verbs -- distinct from _eser(e)_ 'exist', _(h)aber(e)_ 'have' and
_andar(e)_ 'go'.



/BP

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