Re: HELP: Adding irregularities to conlangs?

Philip wrote:

<<Sounds a bit like Latin and the principal parts you have to memorise
 for verbs (IIRC, 1p.sg.indicative, 1p.sg.imperfect, and passive past
 participle), which also allow you to derive the remainder of the
 paradigm - even if one form (e.g. the infinitive alone) is not
 sufficient for this.>>

Exactly.  In my WP Morphology class we spent a lot of time on Latin and
on exactly why IA models didn't work for Latin, and then how WP models
did a better job.

-David

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