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Re: Most common irregular verbs?

From:Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...>
Date:Monday, January 16, 2006, 17:10
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. -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang.htm ...Mind the gmail Reply-to: field