Re: Most common irregular verbs?

On 1/15/06, Amanda Babcock Furrow <langs@...> wrote:

> How about other irregular words?
E.g., nouns with irregular case/number declension?
Adverbs not regularly derived from adjectives,
(like English "good > well", French "bon > bien"),
adjectives with irregular declension (case & number
if they agree with nouns, also comparative forms,
e.g. English good > better > best; Greek has a
fair number of adjectives with irregular comparative
forms); irregular comparison of adverbs.

Another possibility is for a few adjectives or adverbs
to violate the general rule about N-Adj or V-Adv order,
as in e.g. French where a few common adjectives
precede their nouns while all others follow them.

You might also have a handful of common
adpositions appear in the opposite order from
the rest, e.g. mostly prepositional but with a few
common postpositions (e.g. English "ago")
or vice versa.  Or most adpositions take nouns
in a certain case, and a few irregularly take
some other case.

Or, as per the other thread, irregular
derivation of ordinals, fractionals, distributives,
etc. from cardinal numbers.

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