Re: Romula: tense system - request for comments

Am 01/09 18:30  Raymond Brown yscrifef:

> 'eo barol' ~ 'nu pharolan' looks like a perfect example of leveling to me.
>
> If Brithenig had resisted the process we'd have had: 'eo barol' but 'nu
> pharlan'.  We don't, any more than French any longer has 'je parole' ~
> 'nous parlons'.
>
> French has leveled out the irregularity by using the stem 'parl-' throught
> & retaining 'parole' only as a noun; Brithenig surely has levelled out the
> irregularity by using the stem 'parol-' throughout.
>
That's enlightening.  Is there a rule for unleveled stems.  Perhaps I
should consider some variation in Brithenig's verb stems.

- andrew.
--
Andrew Smith, Intheologus                       hobbit@earthlight.co.nz

                      "Piskie, Piskie, say Amen
                   Doon on your knees and up agen."

                    "Presbie, Presbie, dinna bend;
                   Sit ye doon on mon's chief end."
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