Re: Declension Help

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:24:14 -0500, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:

>> Adam wrote:
>> <<
>> I need help with creating a declension (system?). I think I'm quite
>> bad at
>> it. I've looked at various languages and the patterns they seem to use.
>> Which gives me ideas, but I don't want to rip mine right from an
>> existing
>> language. I was wondering if anyone had any advice that might make it
>> a bit
>> easier?
>
>Easier, schmeasier :-)))) This is where you can have some real fun!!
>
>Try setting up underlying (or historical) forms for your case endings, then
>let sound changes work their magic. The result can be that any given ending
>can have X allomorphs depending on how it interacts with the final V or C of
>the stem... Ho ho ho. You can end up with forms for Case N that only
>minimally resemble each other. Or a word stem that's different in every
>case. And we thought nox :: noctis was hard to remember.
>=========================================================================
What is an allomorph?

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