Re: HELP: Adding irregularities to conlangs?

David Peterson <thatbluecat@...> wrote:
> What the language learner has to do, then, is learn three things:
> (1) The nominative form of the noun; (2) the genitive singular form
> of the noun (there are other reasons for this that I didn't explain);
> and (3) the accusative plural.   If you simply memorize those three
> forms, you can predict the entire paradigm for every single noun.
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.

Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>